Damon Galgut-a South African writer, won the prestigious Booker Prize on November 3, 2021 for “The Promise,” a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history.
- Mr. Galgut won the 50,000-pound ($69,000) Booker prize with his story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken promise to a Black employee
- Damon Galgut was previously shortlisted for “The Good Doctor” in 2003 and “In a Strange Room” in 2010, but lost both times.
- The £50,000 Booker Prize, first awarded in 1969, is considered one of the leading prizes for literary fiction written in English.
- The Booker prize is open to any novel written in English by an author of any nationality.
- The list of former winners features several of the literary giants of the last five decades: from Iris Murdoch to Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro to Hilary Mantel.
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