South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker 2021 prize for fiction on November 3 with `The Promise ‘, a novel about a white family calculation with the history of South African racist.
Galgut has become a favorite of English betting that runs away to win a prize of 50,000 pounds ($ 69,000) with the story of a troubled afrikaner family and his broken promise for black employees – a story that reflects a larger theme in the transition of South Africa from apartheid .
Galgut took a prize in the third time as a finalist, for the book the judges called “Tour de Force”.
He was previously selected for ‘The Good Doctor’ in 2003 and ‘in a strange room’ in 2010, but lost both times.
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Even though his status as a favorite, Galgut said he was “stunned” to win.
Galgut said he received a prize “on behalf of all the stories told and countless, the authors heard and were never heard, from the extraordinary continent that I was part of”.
“Please continue to listen to us – more to come,” he added.
Jasanoff’s virtual historian, who led the assessment panel, said ‘The promise’ was a profound, strong and concise book that “combines extraordinary stories, Rich Themes – History of the last 40 years in South Africa – with very good -Wruxt packages.
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Novembal Galgut Novel Traces Swart Family Members – The word is Afrikaans for Black – haunted by Unkept promised to give their black waiter, Salome, his own house.
This book was compiled around a series of funerals for decades; Galgut said he wanted to make readers fill the narrative emptiness itself.
He is the third South African novelist who won the booker prize, after Nadine Gordimer in 1974 and J.M.
Coetzee, who won twice, in 1983 and 1999.
‘The Promise’ was chosen more than five other novels, including three by A.S.
Writers: Richard Powers’ ‘Bewilmentent’, the story of his astrobiologist tried to take care of his Neurodivergent son; Patricia Lockwood’s social media novel ‘Nobody talked about this’ and Maggie Shipstead’s Aviator Saga ‘Great Circle’.
The other finalists were the writer of Sri Lanka Anuk Arudpragasam ‘a Scarmath-of-War Story’ A Passage North ‘and British / Somalia Writer Nadifa Mohamed’ The Fortune Men ‘, about a Somali man mistakenly accused the murder in the 1950s.
Jasanoff said many selected novels, including Galgut, were reflected in the relationship between the past and now.
“This is a very much book about heritage and heritage,” he said about the winner.
“It’s about changes for decades.
And I think it’s a book that invites reflection for decades and invites and reply to re-reading.”
Established in 1969, booker gifts have a reputation for changing the author’s career and originally open to English, Irish, and Commonwealth writers.
The feasibility was expanded in 2014 for all novels in English published in U.K.
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The assessment panel accommodates their list of 158 novels sent by the publisher.
Only one British writer, Mohamed, who made six finals, a fact had renewed the debate in U.K.
about whether the prize becomes the dominance of U.S.
Last year there was only one British writer in the finalist list dominated by A.S., Scotland Douglas Stuart.
He won a prize for ‘Shuggie Bain’, a novel that was sandy and lyrical about a boy who came from the age of the 1980s Glasgow hardscrabble.
For the second year, Pandemic Coronavirus has explored the usual usual black dinner ceremony in the London Medieval Guildhall.
Winners are announced at a live broadcast ceremony on BBC radio and television.
