The 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 3 November 2021, during a ceremony at the BBC Radio Theatre. The longlist was announced on 27 July 2021. The shortlist was announced on 14 September 2021. The Prize â which was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021 â was awarded to Damon Galgut for his novel, The Promise, receiving ã50,000. Shortlisted twice before (in 2003 and 2010), Galgut is the third South African to win the prize, after J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.