South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize 2021 for 'The Promise'

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Category : Awards Published on: November 05 2021

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South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with “The Promise,” a novel about one white family's reckoning with South Africa's racist history.
The Promise is Galgut’s first novel in seven years. The book is set during South Africa’s transition out of apartheid – a system of racial segregation that existed between 1948 and the early ’90s.
He follows in the footsteps of other South African winners Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee, and is the first winner from the country since 1999

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South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize 2021 for 'The Promise'