(London) South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary prize, on Wednesday evening for his novel The Promise, which traces the story of a white family on a farm near Pretoria.
“I am deeply, humbly grateful,” said the 57-year-old winner, a third-time Booker Prize finalist. Covering the period from the end of apartheid until the presidency of Jacob Zuma, The Promise traces the gradual dislocation of a white family from Pretoria as the country emerges towards democracy.