Booker Prize winner Damon Galgut: The volume is going up on Africa

Damon Galgut said 'It’s taken a long while to get here and now that I have, I kind of feel that I shouldn’t be here'

Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize awards ceremony. Picture: David Parry/PA

Damon Galgut has said the “volume is going up on Africa” after being unveiled as the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize.

The South African writer was revealed as the winner of the literary prize in a ceremony on Wednesday evening for his book The Promise.