The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2021
Awards
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2021
The 2021 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Damon Galgut for THE PROMISE. Set in South Africa during the country’s transition out of apartheid, the book explores the interconnected relationships between the members of a diminishing white family through the sequential lens of four funerals. THE PROMISE is Galgut’s ninth novel and first in seven years; his debut was published when he was just 17. Click here to read more about Galgut and his modern family saga.
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2021 Winner
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THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
2021 Shortlist
- A PASSAGE NORTH by Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta Books, Granta Publications)
- THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
- NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS by Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
- THE FORTUNE MEN by Nadifa Mohamed (Viking, Penguin General, PRH)
- BEWILDERMENT by Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH)
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GREAT CIRCLE by Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH)
2021 Longlist
- A PASSAGE NORTH by Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta Books, Granta Publications)
- SECOND PLACE by Rachel Cusk (Faber)
- THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
- THE SWEETNESS OF WATER by Nathan Harris (Tinder Press, Headline, Hachette Book Group)
- KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
- AN ISLAND by Karen Jennings (Holland House Books)
- A TOWN CALLED SOLACE by Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH)
- NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS by Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
- THE FORTUNE MEN by Nadifa Mohamed (Viking, Penguin General, PRH)
- BEWILDERMENT by Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH)
- CHINA ROOM by Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker, Vintage, PRH)
- GREAT CIRCLE by Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH)
- LIGHT PERPETUAL by Francis Spufford (Faber)
