South African writer Damon Galgut wins 2021 Booker Prize

Galgut, 57, follows in the footsteps of previous South African winners Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee and is the first winner from the country since 1999

Damon Galgut with his book The Promise (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)

South African novelist Damon Galgut has won the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction with The Promise.

He has taken home the award at the third time of asking after previously being shortlisted in 2003 and 2010.