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.

Judging panel

 * Rowan Williams
 * Horatia Harrod
 * Natascha McElhone
 * Chigozie Obioma
 * Maya Jasanoff (chair)

Nominees
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