[The Conversation Africa] South African writer Damon Galgut has won the UK's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, for his work The Promise. It was Galgut's third shortlisting for the career-defining award, which has evaded him until now. In 2003 he was shortlisted for The Good Doctor and in 2010 for In a Strange Room. So what is it that makes his latest novel The Promise so special? We asked Galgut expert Sofia Kostelac to fill us in about the writer and his tale of a white South African family's reckoning with a raci