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Okri said that in the 30 years since he won, the prizes have “become more inclusive. And so I was everywhere but I was also nowhere at the same time.”Īlso interviewed during the ceremony was Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri, the 1991 Booker Prize winner for “ The Famished Road.” “In solidarity with COP26 happening in my hometown, I have to be the greenest Booker winner ever, because all the traveling I did was from my gray sofa. During the live event, BBC writer and broadcaster Samira Ahmed interviewed Stuart, asking what it was like to win a major award with a debut novel during a pandemic that precluded a worldwide tour. The latter was last year’s Booker Prize winner for his debut novel, “Shuggie Bain,” about the life of a kind, lonely boy growing up in public housing in 1980s Glasgow. The ceremony included a recorded conversation between Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, and Scottish author Douglas Stuart. Tanzanian British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won this year’s Nobel Prize for literature. “But seeing as the good fortune has fallen to me, let me say this has been a great year for African writing,” the South African writer continued. “This could just as easily have gone to any of the other amazing talented people on this list and a few others who aren’t. “It’s taken a long while to get here and now that I have, I kind of feel that I shouldn’t be here,” said Galgut, previously shortlisted for the British prize, in his acceptance speech.
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Over the next three decades, they are brought together again by three additional funerals, and along the way they reflect on the resentments and hopes of their home country as the former apartheid state evolves. Published in April by Europa Editions, the novel is set near Pretoria, South Africa, and tells the story of three siblings who lose touch after the death of their matriarch. Damon Galgut has been awarded the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel “The Promise.”