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2021 Booker Prize information


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]

  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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