Sep 15 2021
Six titles made the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize for Fiction, one of the most prestigious prizes for English-language literature. This year's finalists were chosen from 158 novels published in the U.K. or Ireland between October 1, 2020, and September 30, 2021. The 2021 winner, who will receive £50,000, will be announced on November 3 in an award ceremony held in partnership with the BBC.
The 2021 shortlist is:
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Hogarth)
The Promise by Damon Galgut (Europa)
No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Riverhead)
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (publishing in the US in March 2022, Knopf)
Bewilderment by Richard Powers (W. W. Norton)
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf)
Douglas Westerbeke's much anticipated debut
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic.
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