Booker winner included in Folio Prize shortlist

 

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE SOUTH AFRICA ACQUIRES LITTLE TIGER                                        space PRESS RELEASE 11 February 2022 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   BOOKER WINNER INCLUDED IN FOLIO PRIZE SHORTLIST The Promise, Damon Galgut's 2021 Booker Prize winning novel, has been included in the shortlist for the Rathbones Folio Prize.   The prize, based in Ireland, was established in 2014 and is open to any book – fiction, nonfiction, or poetry – published in the United Kingdom. The winner receives £30 000 and will be announced on Wednesday, 23 March.   The other books on the shortlist include: Assembly, Natasha Brown Men Who Feed Pigeons, Selima Hill Albert and the Whale, Philip Hoare Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan My Phantoms, Gwendoline Riley China Room, Sunjeev Sahota The Magician, Colm Tóibín   The 2022 Judges are the writers Tessa Hadley (Chair), Rachel Long, and William Atkins.   Galgut's South African publisher, Fourie Botha, says: 'South African readers supported this brilliant book even before it won the Booker. After winning the prize, The Promise became the best-selling book in the country. Its shortlisting for the Folio Prize is further testament to its prominence. It's heartening to see great local sales for literary fiction.'   The Promise is the story of a family, but also of a country, over forty years. In four parts, each one centred on a family funeral in a different decade, the family fights over a piece of land outside Pretoria. In the background, a different president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country. At the core of this mesmerising and at times darkly humorous novel is a deathbed promise by a mother that was never kept – a promise overheard by her young daughter Amor.   Hailed in the press as one of the world's finest writers, Galgut published his first novel at seventeen and since then his work has been translated into sixteen languages. Two films were made of his book The Quarry. Locally, his previous novel, Arctic Summer, was awarded the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. ISBN: 978-1-4152-1058-1 (print) I ISBN: 978-1-4152-1084-0 (e-pub) RECOMMENDED RETAIL PRICE: R290 I CATEGORY: Literary Fiction Author photograph by Nigel Maister. For interviews, covers and/or author photographs, contact Frieda le Roux at fleroux@penguinrandomhouse.co.za / 021 460 5490. For more information, visit www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za.     CAPE TOWN • TEL +27 (0)21 460 5400 • The Estuaries No 4, Oxbow Crescent, Century Ave, Century City, 7441 MIDRAND • Tel.: +27 (0)11 327 3550 • Unit 12A (ii), Growthpoint Business Park, 162 Tonetti Street, Halfway House Ext 7, Midrand, 1685 VAT REG 4620156200 • Co. REG No 1953/000441/07

 

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