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Damon Galgut is a writer based in Cape Town.\\xa0 He wrote his first novel, A Sinless Season (1984),\\xa0when he was seventeen. Small Circle of Beings (1988),\\xa0a collection of short stories, was followed by The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (1991), the story of a young white man on military service who suffers a nervous breakdown. The Quarry (1995), was made into a film by a Belgian production company. The Good Doctor (2003), is set in post-Apartheid South Africa, and explores the relationship between two different men working in a deserted, rural hospital.\\xa0It won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region) and was\\xa0shortlisted for both the 2003 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International\\xa0IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.\\xa0 His latest novel is The Impostor (2008).

We talk here about national and personal trauma, corruption and realpolitik, the shadow of J.M. Coetzee, South African literature as boundaried by massive inequalities, childhood cancer, ambiguity, the new class system, real world maturity and the need for compromise.

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