Damon Galgut (All press)
- Jul 21 2022
“Galgut’s most ambitious novel to date.”
— The New York Book Review - Feb 4 2022
“The Most Popular In-Demand Books in U.S. Libraries”
— Book Riot - Dec 11 2021
“Holiday books: Fiction”
— Minneapolis Star Tribune - Sep 14 2021
“Beautifully written.”
— BBC Culture - Sep 14 2021
“Truly deserving of its place on the shortlist.”
— The Irish Times - Aug 29 2021
“Will move you and stay with you long after you put it down.”
— The Sunday Times - Jul 25 2021
“A masterpiece.”
— Independent.ie - Jul 15 2021
“Complex, ambitious and brilliant.”
— Financial Times - Jul 12 2021
“One of the best books of the year.”
— The Times (UK) - Jul 8 2021
“Stunning.”
— The Guardian - Jul 4 2021
“An allegory for a nation’s wider weaknesses.”
— The Irish Times - May 11 2021
“The author recognizes that peace is possible.”
— Mary Whipple’s Reviews - Apr 15 2021
“Galgut is a gleeful satirist.”
— The New York Times Book Review - Apr 12 2021
“Galgut is wonderfully, Woolfianly adept.”
— New Yorker - Mar 27 2021
“Vast, astonishing, resonant.”
— Wall Street Journal - Mar 15 2021
“Extraordinary.”
— Harper’s Magazine - Mar 3 2021
“A rich story of family, history, and grief.”
— Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) - Feb 22 2021
“A searing portrait of a damaged family.”
— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) - Aug 29 2015
A Passage to Now: "Galgut’s prose blends perfectly the spare and the lyrical, often letting gentle humor shine through. His pacing is flawless." - Aug 25 2015
India’s 2015 Hindu Lit for Life Festival featured Galgut as one of the authors. Video of Galgut’s panel discussion with Ahdaf Soueif and Rajmohan Gandhi on the topic, “Power to the People in Our Time” has been shared by the festival organizers. - Jun 30 2015
An interview with Damon Galgut on The Magwood on Books podcast about life of his subject EM Forster, and how he came to re-imagine the great author’s life. - Jun 27 2015
Damon Galgut announced as the winner of the 2015 Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize on June 27th for ARCTIC SUMMER. - Jun 16 2015
Walter Scott Prize: "E.M. Forster, diffident, self-doubting and longing for the fulfilment of an affectionate relationship, springs to life in Damon Galgut's perfectly judged and sensitively written novel..." - Jun 9 2015
Hinterland: "Galgut shows us how race and class bring status and sexuality threatens it." - Jun 6 2015
The Hindu: An Interview With Damon Galgut: "I am constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains." - May 7 2015
World Literature Today: An "extraordinary novel" - Mar 27 2015
The SF Chronicle: ““Arctic Summer” will take you deeper into the work of two powerful novelists, both of whom reveal a great deal.” - Jan 18 2015
The Guardian: “It is exemplary in its tone and its insights – a difficult feat to achieve” - Dec 22 2014
The New Yorker: "Galgut expertly draws out the emotional and intellectual undercurrents of Forster's most committed relationship." - Oct 6 2014
The New Yorker: "Arctic Summer is the first great flowering of the post-Moffat Forster." - Oct 3 2014
The Wall Street Journal: "[Galgut's] Forster is a tantalizing creation." - Sep 26 2014
New York Times Sunday Book Review (Editor's Choice): "A dignified and absorbing novel." - Sep 18 2014
The Washington Post: "A novelist transforms the facts of Forster’s life into art." - Sep 4 2014
The Rumpus: " He takes a special pleasure in thoroughly and minutely examining, as Proust did, that delicate cusp where sexuality is revealed." - Sep 2 2014
Shelf Awareness: "The brave, occasionally heartbreaking account of a man who dared to love across race and gender lines." - Aug 30 2014
Leader Post: An Interview With Damon Galgut - Aug 29 2014
The Globe and Mail: "A textured and convincing account of how queer desire fed into empathy for those dispossessed by the Union Jack." - Aug 15 2014
Polari Magazine: An Interview with Damon Galgut - Aug 15 2014
Asian Culture Vulture: An Interview with Damon Galgut - Aug 14 2014
The Quivering Pen references the Merchant-Ivory films based on Forster's novels. - Aug 8 2014
The Guardian: Damon Galgut explores the repression and unreciprocated love that influenced the E.M. Forster's most celebrated work - Jul 21 2014
The Los Angeles Review of Books: "Instances of a mid-career writer making an imaginative leap as significant as this novelization are rare." - Jul 11 2014
The Guardian: A Summer read recommended by author Andrew Motion - Jun 23 2014
The Telegraph: Arctic Summer on Telegraph's Best Books of 2014 - Apr 10 2014
The Telegraph: "The pain of unequal love and the desolating gulf between desire and fulfilment, so beautifully conveyed here by Galgut in the case of a long-dead writer, is as recognisable today as it was over a century ago." - Apr 4 2014
The Financial Times: "Galgut inhabits [Forster] with such sympathetic completeness, and in prose of such modest excellence, that he starts to breathe on the page." - Apr 2 2014
The Observer: "Damon Galgut skilfully weaves 'A Passage To India' into a compassionate fictionalised biography of its author" - Mar 1 2014
The Economist: "With insight and seemingly effortless fluidity, Mr Galgut has written a beautiful, and at times funny, novel that movingly captures the duality of one of Britain’s most thoughtful authors." - Jun 11 2013
Malta Today: "It is true that IN A STRANGE ROOM makes an unsettling read, but it is also a very intriguing one." - Jan 17 2013
The Boston Bibliophile: "A beautiful, heartbreaking book." - Mar 3 2011
Hipster Book Club: "Readers will find much to discover for themselves." - Jan 17 2011
Harper's: "The best thing I've read about love lately." - Dec 17 2010
The New York Times Book Review: "Written in spare, controlled prose, these stories have a powerful cumulative effect that is on one level hard and comfortless, yet somehow also tender and humane." - Dec 12 2010
Los Angeles Times: "A spare and careful narrative of the innate search for the unnameable, of a restless traveler with a growing sense of gravity." - Dec 2 2010
The Portland Mercury: "Prose that's memorable, surprising, and beautiful." - Nov 24 2010
The New York Times: "A taut, mesmerizing novel." - Nov 15 2010
Publishers Weekly: "Fascinating." - Nov 1 2010
The New Yorker: "Beneath Damon's physical anxieties churns a search for identity and a desire to shed 'all the ballast of familiar life.'" - Oct 18 2010
The Rumpus: "A powerful, genius work." - Sep 28 2010
Publishing Perspectives: "A beautiful and haunting meditation on loneliness and the unending drive to discover a deeper meaning of life." - Jun 29 1998
ARTIC SUMMER wins: Barry Ronge Prize: "Sunday Times Books Editor Ben Williams said that ARCTIC SUMMER was among the 'two standout books that will shape our literary conversation for years to come.'”