2021 Booker Prize
British literary award given in 2021
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
- 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 |
See also
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.
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Recipients of the Booker Prize
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain)
- 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise)
- 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
- 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song)
