South African author and playwright Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize on Wednesday for his novel "The Promise", about a white South African family's failed commitment to give their Black maid her own home.
It was Galgut's third nomination for the 50,000 pounds ($68,175) English language literary award prize.
"It's changed my life and please know I am profoundly, humbly grateful for this," he said in his acceptance speech.
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(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)
