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Booker prize 2021

December 2021

  • Best fiction of 2021

    Best books of 2021
    Best fiction of 2021

    Dazzling debuts, a word-of-mouth hit, plus this year’s bestsellers from Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Kazuo Ishiguro and more

November 2021

  • Damon Galgut

    ‘How do you give up privilege?’: Damon Galgut on his Booker-winning novel

    In The Promise, Galgut chronicles the decline of post-apartheid South Africa through four funerals over 40 years

October 2021

  • Anuk Arudpragasam, Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed; bottom from left: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgut, Richard Power

    A pioneering pilot, a vast wilderness, a drunken afternoon... Booker shortlisted authors reveal their inspirations

  • Ladder up stack of books<br>Tall white ladder leaning on 10 vintage books on wooden table, blue background

    The Audio Long Read
    Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals – podcast

  • Nadifa Mohamed. ‘I’m trying to write my own story. Live my own story.'

    Books interview
    Nadifa Mohamed: ‘Modern-day Britain is intense’

  • Ladder up stack of booksTall white ladder leaning on 10 vintage books on wooden table, blue background

    The long read
    Inside the Booker Prize: arguments, agonies and carefully encouraged scandals

September 2021

  • South African author Damon Galgut’s low-key satire The Promise has been announced as one of the six-strong shortlist

    Analysis: the 2021 Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our age

    Alex Clark weighs up the urgent concerns of the six novels in the running for Britain’s most prestigious fiction award
  • top: Anuk Arudpragasam , Patricia Lockwood, Nadifa Mohamed bottom: Maggie Shipstead, Damon Galgut, Richard Powers

    Nadifa Mohamed is sole British writer to make Booker prize shortlist

    The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 award
  • An uninhabited island in the Maldives.

    An Island by Karen Jennings review – stranger on the shore

    Longlisted for the Booker prize, Jennings’s tale of a lighthouse keeper and an uninvited guest grapples with colonialism and the plight of refugees

August 2021

  • Anuk Arudpragasam

    Books that made me
    Anuk Arudpragasam: ‘There’s a lot of laughter in my life, but not when I read’

  • karen jennings colour by carol coelho (2)

    ‘I’ve been poor for a long time’: after many rejections, Karen Jennings is up for the Booker

July 2021

  • Justine Jordan

    Rachel Cusk’s singular novel stands out on wide-ranging Booker longlist

    Justine Jordan
  • Booker prize longlistees (from left clockwise: Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, Richard Powers, Patricia Lockwood, Sunjeev Sahota and Nadifa Mohamed.

    Booker prize reveals globe-spanning longlist of ‘engrossing stories’

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