South African writer Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for 'The Promise'
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Damon Galgut had been British bookmakers' runaway favourite to win the 50,000-pound ($69,000) prize with his story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken promise to a Black employee, a tale that reflects bigger themes in South Africa's transition from apartheid.
London: South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday with 'The Promise', a novel about one white family's reckoning with South Africa's racist history.
Galgut had been British bookmakers' runaway favourite to win the 50,000-pound ($69,000) prize with his story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken promise to a Black employee, a tale that reflects bigger themes in South Africa's transition from apartheid.
Galgut took the prize on his third time as a finalist, for a book the judges called a 'tour de force.' He was previously shortlisted for 'The Good Doctor' in 2003 and 'In a Strange Room' in 2010, but lost both times.