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

Category : Awards
Published on: November 05 2021 Share on facebook

  • 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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