Damon Galgut

'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.