His third “final” will have been the good one. South African author Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize on Wednesday evening literary prize British for The Promise. His book is about time spent in a white farming family in the South Africa post-apartheid. “I am deeply, humbly grateful,” said the 57-year-old winner, a third-time … Read more
South African author Damon Galgut, during the photocall for shortlisted authors for the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction at the Southbank Centre, London on October 31, 2021. TOLGA AKMEN / AFP South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary prize, on Wednesday 3 November for The Promisea book about the … Read more
(London) South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary prize, on Wednesday evening for The Promisea book about time spent in a white farming family in post-apartheid South Africa. Updated Nov 3, 2021 Sylvain PEUCHMAURD France Media Agency “I am deeply, humbly grateful,” said the 57-year-old, a third-time Booker Prize … Read more
Booker Prize 2021 pour son dernier roman, le Sud-Africain Damon Galgut livre avec La promesse une saga familiale qui traite en creux du déclin de l’Afrique du Sud blanche. Le dernier roman de Damon Galgut, un grand cru, a été couronné par le Booker Prize 2021 et traduit en français chez L’Olivier. Cet auteur sensible … Read more
Amidst art objects and old typewriters, the hand-bound copy of “The Promise” by South African author Damon Galgut, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize last month, is casually placed on a table in his Cape Town living room. Each year, the finalists for the award for “best novel written in English” presented in London receive, … Read more
(Cape Town) Amidst works of art and old typewriters, the hand-bound copy of The Promise, by South African author Damon Galgut, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize last month, sits casually on a table in his Cape Town living room. Posted on December 8, 2021 at 10:34 a.m. Griffin SHEA France Media Agency Each year, … Read more
Published on : 12/08/2021 – 10:32Modified : 08/12/2021 – 10:30 Cape Town (AFP) – Amidst art objects and old typewriters, the hand-bound copy of “The Promise” by South African author Damon Galgut, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize last month, is casually placed on a table in his Cape Town living room. Each year, the … Read more
“I am deeply, humbly grateful,” said the 57-year-old winner, a third-time Booker Prize finalist. Obviously moved, he hailed a “great year for African writing”, marked by the Nobel Prize for literature by Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Briton born in Zanzibar. “It’s a process that will continue” and “people are going to take African writing a little … Read more
His book traces, over a series of funerals, the breakup of a white family in post-apartheid South Africa. South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary prize, on Wednesday evening for The Promise, a book about the time that passes in a white farming family in post-apartheid South Africa. “I … Read more
South African author Damon Galgut, during the photoshoot for shortlisted authors for the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction at the Southbank Center, London on October 31, 2021. TOLGA AKMEN / AFP South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary prize, on Wednesday 3 November for The Promise, a book about … Read more