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- “I didn’t ever think I had a realistic chance of winning, because The Promise is just too odd a book,” says Damon Galgut. The author was, he admits, a bit “sandy-eyed” the morning after celebrating winning the Booker Prize for his magnificent ninth novel.
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Nov 5, 2021 · The result, according to the Booker judges, was “a spectacular demonstration of how the novel can make us see and think afresh”. It makes Galgut, who was twice shortlisted in the past, the ...
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“I didn’t ever think I had a realistic chance of winning, because The Promise is just too odd a book,” says Damon Galgut. The author was, he admits, a bit “sandy-eyed” the morning after...
Dazzling, original, heartfelt and exhilarating, or bleak, depressing, incoherent and unrealistic? What did Kate’s book club make of The Promise, Damon Galgut’s Booker-prize-winning novel, which tells the story of one white South-African family, and the promise made to their black servant, Salome.
Nov 6, 2021 · Damon Galgut, a white South African playwright and novelist, has won the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise, a satirical portrait of a white family living in Pretoria in...
Feb 28, 2022 · “I had no doubt, from a much earlier age than my first publication, that I was a writer,” says Damon Galgut. The Booker Prize-winning author of The Promise is 58, but published his first novel, A Sinless Season, at just 17. “I think it was the third or fourth novel I’d written at that point,” he says.
Nov 4, 2021 · South African author Damon Galgut has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction at the third attempt for his novel The Promise.
The Promise is a 2021 novel by South African novelist Damon Galgut, published in May 2021, by Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa. [1] It was published by Europa Editions in the US [2] and by Chatto & Windus in the UK. [3] [4] The novel was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize, making Galgut the third South African to win the Prize.
