South African author Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for 'The Promise'

South African writer Damon Galgut won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction on Nov 3 with The Promise, a novel about one white family’s reckoning with South Africa’s racist history.

Galgut had been British bookmakers’ runaway favourite to win the £50,000 (RM284,000) prize with his story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken promise to a Black employee - a tale that reflects bigger themes in South Africa’s transition from apartheid.