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outh African writer Damon Galgut has won the UK’s most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, for his work . It was Galgut’s third shortlisting for the career-defining award, which has evaded him until now. In 2003 he was shortlisted for and in 2010 for . So what is it that makes his latest novel T so special? We asked Galgut expert Sofia Kostelac to fill us in about

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