The Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced for 2021
The Booker Prize for Fiction shortlist 2021 has now been announced, with six titles left in the running for the coveted prize.
British-Somali author Nadifa Mohamed made the shortlist for her novel The Fortune Men, alongside five other books.
The Booker longlist was announced on 27 July, revealing the titles up for the coveted award in 2021.
The list consists of a “Booker’s Dozen” collection of 13 books, written in English by writers from all over the world.
British novelist and author of Never Let Me Go (which was adapted into a film starring Keira Knightly and Carey Mulligan), Sir Kazuo Ishiguro was included in the list for his book Klara and the Sun.
The acclaimed author won the Booker Prize in 1989 for his novel The Remains of the Day and has since been awarded the Nobel prize in literature, as well as a knighthood. However, he has been left out of the 2021 shortlist.
Writer Rachel Cusk made the longlist for her novel Second Place alongside a wide range of other emerging and as well heavyweight names from around the world.
Sally Rooney was missed from the running altogether this year with her latest novel, Beautiful World, Where Are You, after being nominated for Normal People in 2018.
You can see the full list of nominees Booker Prize shortlist and longlist nominees below.
The Booker Prize shortlist 2021
The Promise by Damon Galgut
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
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The Booker Prize longlist 2021
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The Promise by Damon Galgut
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
An Island by Karen Jennings
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
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The Booker Prize nominees for 2021 were chosen by the official judging panel which consists of novelist Chigozie Obioma, historian Maya Jasanoff, writer and editor Horatia Harrod, former Archbishop Rowan Williams and actor Natascha McElhone.
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