Novelist and playwright Damon Galgut has won the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel The Promise.
The news was announced on Wednesday (3 November) during a ceremony in London.
The South African writer had been shortlisted for the third time this year, after being a finalist in 2003 and 2010.
The Promise is a family saga set in Pretoria, where Galgut grew up, told through a series of four funerals.
Galgut, who lives in Cape Town, told BBC Radio 4’s Front Row in an interview last week that he was inspired to try out this narrative structure during a “semi-drunken afternoon” with a friend who shared “a whole series of funeral anecdotes”.
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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