LONDON: South African writer Damon Galgut won prestigious booker prizes for fiction on Wednesday with “ promise, ” a novel about a white family calculation with the history of South African racist.
Galgut has become a favorite of the British bookmakers who fled to win a 50,000 pound prize ($ 69,000) with his story about a troubled Afrikaner family and his broken promise for black employees _ a story that reflects a greater theme in the transition of South Africa from apartheid .
Galgut took the prize in the third time as a finalist, for the books of the judges called “ Tour de Force.
‘In 2010, but was lost both times.
Apart from his status as a favorite, Galgut said he was’ stunned ” to win.
Galgut said he received the prize “ on behalf of all the stories told and countless, the authors heard and were never heard, from the extraordinary continent I was part of.
“” Please keep listening to us _ “he added.
Maya Jasanoff’s historian, who leads the assessment panel, says `The Promise ” is a profound, strong and short book ‘combining extraordinary stories, Rich Themes – History of the last 40 years in South Africa the package is very good at very good.
” Galgut novel traces the Swart family member _ The Firman is Afrikaans for Black _ haunted by the promise of Unkept 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 was Novelis Third South African to win a booker prize, after Nadine Gordimer in 1974 and JM Coetzee, who won twice, in 1983 and 1999.
“ The Promise ‘was chosen more than five other novels, including three by us.
Richard Powers ” confused, ” The story of his astrobiologist tried to take care of his Neurodivergent son; Patricia Lockwood’s social media novel ‘no one talked about this’ ‘and Maggie Shapstead’s Aviator Saga` `Great circle.’ ‘The other finalists are the writer Sri Layan Anuk Arudpragasam’s Aftermath-of-War` `northern’.
‘And British / Somalia writer Nadifa Mohamed’s `The Fortune Men,’ ‘About a Somali man wrongly accused of killing in the 1950s Wales.
Jasanoff said many selected novels, including Galgut, were reflected in the relationship between the past and now.
“ This is a very 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, the booker’s prize has a reputation for changing the author’s career and was originally open to English, Irish and Commonwealth writers.
The feasibility was expanded in 2014 for all novels in English published in U.K.
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 sandy novel and lyrics about a boy who came age in the 1980s of 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.