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Damon Galgut’s The Promise is tonight, 3 November, named winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction at a ceremony at Broadcasting House’s Radio Theatre

After a break on in-person events, the 2021 Booker Prize authors gathered in Coventry and London for evenings of discussion, readings and meeting readers.

BBC Two’s book show has returned, featuring Booker-longlisted books as part of the Big Jubilee Read

Every author shortlisted for the Booker Prize receives a bespoke bound copy of their book. Find out more here about the bookbinding process behind the prize

Maggie Shipstead, author of the 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted Great Circle, on why she loves Ruth Ozeki’s 2013 shortlisted novel A Tale for the Time Being.

Nadifa Mohamed, author of The Fortune Men, recalls how she was transported to Kerala while reading Arundhati Roy’s 1997 winning novel, The God of Small Things
 

We are expanding our team to help encourage more readers to explore the hundreds of extraordinary books that have been nominated for our annual prizes. See our available roles here

Anuk Arudpragasam, author of the 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted A Passage North, on why he thinks John Berger’s 1972 Booker Prize-winning novel G. is ‘hugely impressive’.

Thursday 14 October 2021, the Booker Prize unveils the programme for its 2021 winner ceremony filled with exciting names from the prize’s past and present