Art achievements passes in silence, says SA’s Booker-winning author Damon Galgut
Winner of the prestigious Booker prize for 'The Promise' Damon Galgut says sporting achievements are widely celebrated while arts wins are a muted affair.…
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Why Africa is dominating literary prizes in 2021
They include Tanzania's Abdulrazak Gurnah becoming a Nobel laureate, South Africa's Damon Galgut winning Britain's Booker Prize and 31-year-old Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr becoming the first…
South African author Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize 2021 for ‘The Promise’ – Times…
South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction on November 3 with `The Promise', a novel about one white family's reckoning with South Africa's racist history.
Galgut had been British bookmakers'…
South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
Spanning several decades, the book shows the family's growing disintegration as the country emerges into democracy.…
Damon Galgut Awarded Booker Prize 2021 For “The Promise”
<!-- -->"I am really profoundly, humbly grateful for this," the 57-year-old said.London: South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut on Wednesday won the 2021 Booker Prize for "The Promise", his third shortlisted novel which…
War, social media, racism explored in 2021 Booker shortlist
War, social media, racism explored in 2021 Booker shortlist
The six novels…