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Film, Video Damon Galgut, Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize

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Title

  • Damon Galgut, Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize

Summary

  • Watch a conversation with South African novelist and playwright Damon Galgut in celebration of Africa Month. Galgut won the 2021 Booker Prize for his ninth novel "The Promise," a fictional account of a white South African family living on a farm outside Pretoria during the waning days of apartheid. Using humor to broach difficult subjects, the novel was praised by the Booker Prize judges for offering an "unambiguous commentary on the history of South Africa and of humanity itself."

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2022-05-12.

Notes

  • -  Damon Galgut, Lanisa Kitchiner.
  • -  Recorded on 2022-05-12.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024697929

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  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Damon Galgut, Winner of theBooker Prize. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-12, 2022. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697929/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, S. B. (2022) Damon Galgut, Winner of theBooker Prize. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024697929/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Damon Galgut, Winner of theBooker Prize. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-12, 2022. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024697929/>.