Damon Galgut Wins The Booker Prize 2021 - Full Ceremony and Acceptance Speech | The Booker Prize

Watch the 2021 Booker Prize ceremony, in which Damon Galgut wins with 'The Promise'.

The shortlist included 'A Passage North' by Anuk Arudpragasam, 'No One is Talking About This' by Patricia Lockwood, 'The Fortune Men' by Nadifa Mohamed, 'Bewilderment' by Richard Powers and 'Great Circle' by Maggie Shipstead.

The 2021 judges were Maya Jasanoff, Horatia Harrod, Natasha McElhone, Dr Rowan Williams and Chigozie Obioma.

Discover more about the Booker Prize 2021 here: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booke...

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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