2021 Booker Prize

The 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 3 November 2021, during a ceremony at the BBC Radio Theatre.^[1] The longlist was announced on 27 July 2021.^[2]^[3] The shortlist was announced on 14 September 2021.^[4] The Prize – which was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021^[5] – was awarded to Damon Galgut for his novel, The Promise, receiving £50,000. Shortlisted twice before (in 2003 and 2010),^[5] Galgut is the third South African to win the prize, after J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.^[6]

Judging panel

Nominees

indicates the winner

Shortlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Damon Galgut	The Promise	Novel	South Africa	Jonathan Cape
Anuk Arudpragasam	A Passage North	Novel	Sri Lanka	Granta Books
Patricia Lockwood	No One Is Talking About This	Novel	United States	Bloomsbury Publishing/Bloomsbury Circus
Nadifa Mohamed	The Fortune Men	Novel	Somalia / United Kingdom	Viking / Penguin General / PRH
Richard Powers	Bewilderment	Novel	United States	Hutchinson Heinemann
Maggie Shipstead	Great Circle	Novel	United States	Doubleday/Transworld Publishers

Longlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Anuk Arudpragasam	A Passage North	Novel	Sri Lanka	Granta Books
Rachel Cusk	Second Place	Novel	UK/Canada	Faber & Faber
Damon Galgut	The Promise	Novel	South Africa	Jonathan Cape
Nathan Harris	The Sweetness of Water	Novel	United States	Tinder Press
Kazuo Ishiguro	Klara and the Sun	Novel	United Kingdom	Faber & Faber
Karen Jennings	An Island	Novel	South Africa	Holland House Books
Mary Lawson	A Town Called Solace	Novel	Canada	Chatto & Windus / Vintage / PRH
Patricia Lockwood	No One Is Talking About This	Novel	United States	Bloomsbury Publishing/Bloomsbury Circus
Nadifa Mohamed	The Fortune Men	Novel	Somalia / United Kingdom	Viking / Penguin General / PRH
Richard Powers	Bewilderment	Novel	United States	Hutchinson Heinemann
Sunjeev Sahota	China Room	Novel	United Kingdom	Harvill Secker / Vintage / PRH
Maggie Shipstead	Great Circle	Novel	United States	Doubleday/Transworld Publishers
Francis Spufford	Light Perpetual	Novel	United Kingdom	Faber & Faber

References

^ "The final six novels". Booker Prize. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
^ Flood, Alison (27 June 2021). "Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of 'engrossing stories'". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ Doyle, Martin. "Booker Prize 2021 longlist: two debutants and former winner Ishiguro but no Irish". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
^ Flood, Alison (14 September 2021). "Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
^ ^a ^b Michallon, Clémence (4 November 2021). "Booker Prize 2021: Damon Galgut wins top literary award for 'astonishing' novel The Promise". The Independent.
^ Flood, Alison (3 November 2021). "Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with 'spectacular' novel The Promise". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

[1] "The final six novels". Booker Prize. Retrieved 23 September 2021.

[2] Flood, Alison (27 June 2021). "Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of 'engrossing stories'". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

[3] Doyle, Martin. "Booker Prize 2021 longlist: two debutants and former winner Ishiguro but no Irish". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 July 2021.

[4] Flood, Alison (14 September 2021). "Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 September 2021.

[Independent-5] Michallon, Clémence (4 November 2021). "Booker Prize 2021: Damon Galgut wins top literary award for 'astonishing' novel The Promise". The Independent.

[6] Flood, Alison (3 November 2021). "Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with 'spectacular' novel The Promise". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 November 2021.

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