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Download Solution PDFWho has won the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Promise?
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Option 2 : Damon Galgut
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Damon Galgut.
Key Points
- South African author Damon Galgut has won the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Promise.
- He won the award in his third appearance on the shortlist after making the cut in 2003 and 2010.
- He follows in the footsteps of other South African winners Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee, and is the first winner from the country since 1999.
Important Points
- Galgut took the prize on his third time as a finalist, for a book the judges called a “tour de force.”
- He was previously shortlisted for “The Good Doctor” in 2003 and “In a Strange Room” in 2010 but lost both times.
Additional Information
- Booker Prize:
- The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
- The winner of the Booker Prize receives international publicity which usually leads to a sales boost.
- It was first awarded in 1969.
- Indian Winners:
- V.S. Naipaul in 1971.
- Salman Rushdie in 1981.
- Arundhati Roy in 1997.
- Kiran Desai in 2006.
- Aravind Adiga in 2008.
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