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
edit- Rowan Williams
- Horatia Harrod
- Natascha McElhone
- Chigozie Obioma
- Maya Jasanoff (chair)
Nominees
edit indicates the winner
Shortlist
edit| 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
edit| 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 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "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.