Damon Galgut Awarded Booker Prize 2021 For "The Promise"
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Spanning several decades, the book shows the family's growing disintegration as the country emerges into democracy.
South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut on Wednesday won the 2021 Booker Prize for "The Promise", his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma's presidency.
Spanning several decades, the book shows the family's growing disintegration as the country emerges into democracy.
"I am really profoundly, humbly grateful for this," the 57-year-old said as he accepted the prestigious British award at a televised ceremony in London.
"It's taken a long while to get here and now that I have, I kind of feel that I shouldn't be here," added the author, who wrote his first novel aged 17.
