South African author and playwright Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize on Wednesday for his novel 'The Promise', about a white South African family's failed commitment to give their Black maid her own home.
South African author and playwright Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize on Wednesday for his novel, about a white South African family's failed commitment
to give their Black maid her own home."It's changed my life and please know I am profoundly, humbly grateful for this," he said in his acceptance speech.
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