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Booker Prize Winner: 'Critics tell me I have no sense of humour'
South African writer Damon Galgut is awarded £50,000 for winning the 2021 Booker prize with the novel 'The Promise'
South African writer Damon Galgut wins the 2021 Booker prize with the novel 'The Promise'. The Ethiopian government and TPLF forces in Tigray have been at war for one year. Death toll from building collapsed in Lagos rises to over thirty. An interview with the President of Seychelles representing Small Island Developing Nations at COP26.
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