Books of ambition
An author who wrote his first novel at 17, Damon Galgut has spent decades trembling on the edge of greatness. Anyone who has read his scarifying The Good Doctor from 2003 or his 2010 Booker-shortlisted autofiction In a Strange Room, will already know him as a polished stylist and the most acute analyst of contemporary South Africa after J. M. Coetzee.
Source: thesaturdaypaper.com.au