Booker Prize to South African Galgut for 'The Promise'

(ANSA) - LONDON, NOV 03 - The Booker 2021, one of the most prestigious British literary awards for English-language writers, goes to South African Damon Galgut, 59-year-old novelist and playwright. Galgut - already nominated for the Booker in 2003 and in 2010, when he was included in the shortlist but without being able to reach the victory - was awarded for the novel 'ThePromise'.

    Son of the white bourgeoisie of Pretoria, born in a family of European origins, he has a long career behind him which began at a very young age and tells of having developed the idea of ​​discretion since he was a child, during his convalescence for the treatment of a cancer diagnosed at the age of 6.

    "It was a long way to get here," he commented after the announcement, "and now that I am there I warn that I should not be there ".

   "This award could have easily gone to one of the other formidable talented authors nominees or to someone who was not on the shortlist", Galgut scoffed, not without emphasizing however like this one - from the Nobel Prize for Literature to the Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah, to the French Goncourt awarded today to the Senegalese. Mohamed MbougarSarr - "it has been a great year for African fiction ...

   for the extraordinary continent to which I belong".

A continent that he invited to "listen more, because it has much more to give".

(HANDLE).