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 was awarded to Damon Galgut for his novel, The Promise, receiving £50,000. He is the third South African to win the prize, after J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.
Judging panel
- Rowan Williams
- Horatia Harrod
- Natascha McElhone
- Chigozie Obioma
- Maya Jasanoff (Chair)
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 |