
The Promise hailed as a 'clear Booker winner'
Damon Galgut is ‘a vital, nuanced chronicler of the deep hurts of South Africa, past and present’, wrote Justine Jordan in the Guardian after he was announced as the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for The Promise. Galgut’s themes of ‘historical injustice and the legacy of colonial violence make The Promise a timely, urgent winner’, said Jordan. Read the full piece at the Guardian.