2021 Booker Prize

British literary award given in 2021

Damon Galgut, winner of the 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

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* Rowan Williams
* Horatia Harrod
* Natascha McElhone
* Chigozie Obioma
* Maya Jasanoff (chair)

## Nominees

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indicates the winner

### Shortlist

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Author  | Title  | Genre(s)  | Country  | Publisher

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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

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Author  | Title  | Genre(s)  | Country  | Publisher

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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

## See also

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* List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction

## References

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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.
5. ^ a b 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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Recipients of the Booker Prize

* List of winners and nominated authors
* The Best of the Booker
* The Golden Man Booker
* International Booker Prize

1969–79|

* 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For)
* 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member)
* 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles)
* 1971: V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State)
* 1972: John Berger (G.)
* 1973: J. G. Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur)
* 1974: Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist) and Stanley Middleton (Holiday)
* 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust)
* 1976: David Storey (Saville)
* 1977: Paul Scott (Staying On)
* 1978: Iris Murdoch (The Sea, The Sea)
* 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald (Offshore)

1980s|

* 1980: William Golding (Rites of Passage)
* 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children)
* 1982: Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark)
* 1983: J. M. Coetzee (Life & Times of Michael K)
* 1984: Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac)
* 1985: Keri Hulme (The Bone People)
* 1986: Kingsley Amis (The Old Devils)
* 1987: Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger)
* 1988: Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda)
* 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)

1990s|

* 1990: A. S. Byatt (Possession)
* 1991: Ben Okri (The Famished Road)
* 1992: Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger)
* 1993: Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha)
* 1994: James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late)
* 1995: Pat Barker (The Ghost Road)
* 1996: Graham Swift (Last Orders)
* 1997: Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
* 1998: Ian McEwan (Amsterdam)
* 1999: J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace)

2000s|

* 2000: Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
* 2001: Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang)
* 2002: Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
* 2003: DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little)
* 2004: Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty)
* 2005: John Banville (The Sea)
* 2006: Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
* 2007: Anne Enright (The Gathering)
* 2008: Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger)
* 2009: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)

2010s|

* 2010: Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question)
* 2011: Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
* 2012: Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies)
* 2013: Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries)
* 2014: Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
* 2015: Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings)
* 2016: Paul Beatty (The Sellout)
* 2017: George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo)
* 2018: Anna Burns (Milkman)
* 2019: Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)

2020s|

* 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain)
* 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise)
* 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
* 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song)

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