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You are here: Home / News / South Africa: Booker Prize – Damon Galgut’s the Promise Is a Reminder of South Africa’s Continued and Difficult Journey to a Better Future

South Africa: Booker Prize – Damon Galgut’s the Promise Is a Reminder of South Africa’s Continued and Difficult Journey to a Better Future

7 November 2021 12:28 pm

  • South Africa: Booker Prize – Damon Galgut’s the Promise Is a Reminder of South Africa’s Continued and Difficult Journey to a Better Future: 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 post-apartheid South …. Read More at: “Pretoria” – BingNews
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  • Booker winner Damon Galgut: ‘My family were not raging racists, but they were fairly comfortable with the set-up’: After two previous shortlist disappointments, the South African author has claimed victory with his mesmerising ninth novel ‘The Promise’. He talks to Martin Chilton about growing up in a racist and …. Read More at: “Pretoria” – BingNews
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