The 2021 Booker Prize longlist has just been revealed, with authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, Richard Powers and more all making the list. It’s a longlist that’s heavy with established talent, with five of the authors on this year’s list having achieved Booker recognition in the past (Galgut, Ishiguro, Lawson, Powers and Sahota).
2021 Chair of Judges Maya Jasanoff said,
‘One thing that unites these books is their power to absorb the reader in an unusual story, and to do so in an artful, distinctive voice. Many of them consider how people grapple with the past — whether personal experiences of grief or dislocation or the historical legacies of enslavement, apartheid, and civil war. Many examine intimate relationships placed under stress, and through them meditate on ideas of freedom and obligation, or on what makes us human.’
The prize, which is open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland, is one of the most prestigious in the world, with the winning author receiving £50,000.
The shortlist will be revealed on the 14th of September, and the winner on the 3rd of November — check out the full 2021 Booker Prize longlist below!
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 (William 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)
Congratulations to all of the authors on the 2021 Booker Prize longlist!
Find out more about the Booker Prize here
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