Booker Prize Winners, Longlist & Shortlist

2021 Booker Prize Winner

The prestigious Booker Prize is given for a novel written in English. The winner for 2021 is Damon Galgut's The Promise, an epic South African drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of history.

Discover the Booker Prize shortlist nominees for 2021 and all of the past winning titles at Barnes & Noble. The Booker Prize for Fiction was formerly known as the Man Booker Prize from 2002-2019 and the Booker-McConnell prize from 1969-2001. The award is presented to the best original novel published in the UK. The Booker Prize for Fiction was established in 1969 and has been choosing winners annually since. The Booker Prize for Fiction is one of the most important and prestigious literary awards in the world today. The 2019 Booker Prize winners were The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. The 2020 Booker Prize winner was Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart.

The 2021 Booker Prize Shortlist is:

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
The Promise by Damon Galgut
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

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