
Each year, the Booker Prize brings together the six authors whose books have been shortlisted in that year.
After a break on in person events necessitated by the pandemic, the 2021 Booker Prize authors gathered in Coventry and London for evenings of discussion, readings and meeting readers.
See pictures, reactions and more from the events below.
The book is really a study of different kinds of yearning – it’s a novel about living with absence
Anuk Arudpragasam reads from A Passage North at Southbank Centre.
© David Sandison/Booker Prize FoundationReaders imaginations have to fill in the gaps on the map
Damon Galgut readies himself to read from The Promise at Southbank Centre.
© David Sandison/Booker Prize FoundationIf i could eat the internet in some way and then burst, I would do that for everyone in this room
Patricia Lockwood at the podium at Southbank Centre for her reading from No One Is Talking About This.
© David Sandison/Booker Prize FoundationI fell in love with Tiger Bay, it felt like a historic version of Britain that I could see myself in
Nadifa Mohamed answers a question on stage at Southbank Centre.
© David Sandison/Booker Prize FoundationI drew a lot of inspiration from the world’s most famous child, who once declared her autism her superpower
Richard Powers reads from Bewilderment at Southbank Centre.
© David Sandison/Booker Prize FoundationHer circular flight is an attempt to seek a kind of horizon
Maggie Shipstead reads from Great Circle at Southbank Centre.
© David Sandison/Booker Prize FoundationBy Damon Galgut