5/13/2023 0 Comments The promise by damon galgut![]() ![]() In awarding the honor, Maya Jasanoff, Harvard’s Coolidge Professor of History and chair of the 2021 judging panel, explained that the group “arrived at a consensus around a book that is a real master of form and pushes the form in new ways, that has an incredible originality and fluidity of voice, and a book that’s really dense with historical and metaphorical significance.”ĭuring a wide-ranging online conversation on Tuesday, Galgut discussed the book’s narrative structure, tone, style, and historical underpinnings with the literary critic and essayist James Wood, who reviewed “The Promise” in the New Yorker when it was published last April. “It’s taken a long while to get here and now that I have I kind of feel like I shouldn’t be here,” Galgut, who’d been nominated twice before for the award, told the crowd that gathered in London for the ceremony in November.īut fans, critics, and the five judges felt otherwise. When he won the 2021 Booker Prize in fiction for “The Promise,” about a divided white South African family under apartheid, the South African novelist Damon Galgut looked more surprised than elated. ![]()
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