Damon Galgut won Booker Prize

Highlights:

• Damon Galgut, a South African playwright and writer, has won the 2021 Booker Prize.
• He is honored with the award for "The Promise," his third shortlisted novel about a family in his nation from the end of apartheid to the election of Jacob Zuma.
• The book spans several decades and depicts the family's gradual disintegration as the country transitions to democracy.
• Mr. Galgut won his third medal as a finalist for a novel that the judges described as a "tour de force."
• He had previously been nominated for "The Good Doctor" in 2003 and "In a Strange Room" in 2010, but both times he was unsuccessful.