| 2021Booker Prize | |
|---|---|
| Date | 3 November 2021 |
| Location | BBC Radio Theatre, London |
| Country | United Kingdom & Ireland |

The2021 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 3 November 2021, during a ceremony at theBBC Radio Theatre.[1] The longlist was announced on 27 July 2021.[2][3] The shortlist was announced on 14 September 2021.[4] ThePrize – which was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021[5] – was awarded toDamon 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, afterJ. M. Coetzee andNadine Gordimer.[6]
| 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 |
| 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 |