Damon Galgut wins 2021 Booker Prize for “The Promise”

South African writer Damon Galgut has been awarded the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction on November 3, 2021. He’s the winner of the 2021 award for The Promise, a mordant, realist look at the Swarts family, white descendants of Boer settlers during the aftermath of apartheid in the latter half of the 20th century.

The Booker Prize for Fiction, (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019)), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. It carries £50,000 prize ($69,000).