South African - Playwright | November 12, 1963 -
Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
Damon Galgut
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying.
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