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Nov 3, 2021 · Damon Galgut’s The Promise is tonight, Wednesday 3 November, named winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction. The announcement made by Maya Jasanoff, chair of the 2021 judges, was the culmination of a 45-minute ceremony held in partnership with the BBC at Broadcasting House’s Radio Theatre.
Nov 3, 2021 · Damon Galgut has won the 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Promise, a vivid and searing account of family decline in South Africa during the transition from apartheid.
- Frederick Studemann
The Promise was awarded the 2021 Booker Prize. [17] Galgut is the third writer from South Africa to win the Booker, following Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, who has won twice. Galgut was previously shortlisted twice for the Prize: first in 2003 for The Good Doctor and again in 2010 for In a Strange Room. [18]
Jun 17, 2021 · The Promise won the Booker Prize in 2021. Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut’s deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land. The narrator’s eye shifts and blinks, deliciously lethal in its observation of the crash and burn of a white South African family.
Nov 3, 2021 · The Promise by Damon Galgut has won the 2021 Booker Prize. Presenting the award, the chair of the judging panel Maya Jasanoff praised the book as having an "incredible originality and fluidity...
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. Galgut, who was previously nominated in 2003 and 2010,...
Nov 3, 2021 · “The Promise,” Galgut’s ninth book, had already won acclaim among critics for its menacing and bleakly funny portrait of the Swart family, descendants of Dutch settlers who are desperately...
