Damon Galgut in Conversation with Imraan Coovadia at GIPCA’s Great Texts/Big Questions Public Lecture Series
Damon Galgut, author of the novels In a Strange Room and The Good Doctor, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book from the Africa Region in 2003, will be speaking at a lecture series organised by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA).
Galgut will be in conversation with Imraan Coovadia, coordinator of the Great texts/Big Questions lecture series and author of The Institute for Taxi Poetry.
The event will be held in Hiddingh Hall at the University of Cape Town on Thursday 13 September at 5 PM for 5:30 PM. It’s not necessary to book and refreshments will be served at 5 PM.
Award-winning novelist, short story writer and playwright Damon Galgut is the next speaker in the Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture series. Departing from its usual lecture format, this event features Galgut in conversation with another award-winning writer, Imraan Coovadia, convener of the Great Texts/Big Questions series.
Damon Galgut studied drama at the University of Cape Town. He was only seventeen when his debut novel, A Sinless Season, was published in 1984. Small Circle of Beings (1988), a collection of short stories in which Galgut drew on his own experience of serious illness, was followed by the award-winning novel The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs (1991), perhaps his most overtly political book, and The Quarry (1995).
It was not until the publication of The Good Doctor in 2003, however, that Galgut reached a far wider readership. This novel, exploring the relationship between two contrasting characters in a remote, rural hospital in post-apartheid South Africa, was enthusiastically received by critics – shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book from the Africa Region. The Good Doctor was followed by The Impostor (2008).
Event Details
- Date: Thursday, 13 September 2012
- Time: 5:00 PM for 5:30 PM
- Venue: Hiddingh Hall, University of Cape Town Hiddingh Campus,
32-37 Orange Street,
Cape Town | Map - Queries: fin-gipca@uct.ac.za, 021 480 7156
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- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut
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- The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
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- The Institute for Taxi Poetry by Imraan Coovadia
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