![]() ![]() Galgut said he was accepting the prize “on behalf of all the stories told and untold, the writers heard and unheard, from the remarkable continent that I’m part of”. He was previously shortlisted for The Good Doctor in 2003 and In a Strange Room in 2010, but lost both times.ĭespite his status as favourite, Galgut said he was “stunned” to win. Galgut took the prize on his third time as a finalist, for a book the judges called a “tour de force”. 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. ![]() ![]() South African writer Damon Galgut has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with The Promise, a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history. ![]()
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