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2021 Booker Prize
| 2021 Booker Prize |
|---|
| 3 November 2021 |
| BBC Radio Theatre, London |
| United Kingdom & Ireland |
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. The longlist was announced on 27 July 2021. The shortlist was announced on 14 September 2021. The Prize – which was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021 – was awarded to Damon Galgut for his novel, The Promise, receiving £50,000. Shortlisted twice before (in 2003 and 2010), Galgut is the third South African to win the prize, after J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.
- Rowan Williams
- Horatia Harrod
- Natascha McElhone
- Chigozie Obioma
- Maya Jasanoff (chair)
| 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 |
| 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 |
- List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction
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