Galgut, a South African playwright and author, has won the Booker Prize for 2021.

 

He received the award for "The Promise," his third shortlisted novel about a family in his country from the end of apartheid to Jacob Zuma`s election.

 

Mr. Galgut won his third medal as a finalist for a novel that the judges described as a "tour de force." 

 

He had previously been nominated for "The Good Doctor" in 2003 and "In a Strange Room" in 2010, but both times he was unsuccessful.