On 6 October the Goldsmiths Prize announced its shortlist of ground-breaking novels by British and Irish writers. The £10,000 award, run in association with the New Statesman, celebrates fiction that “breaks the mould and extends the possibilities of the novel form”.
Leone Ross makes the shortlist with her first novel in 22 years. Ross’s This One Sky Day, an exuberant work of magical realism that was 15 years in the making, is one of six books to be shortlisted for the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize. Ross’s third novel – following the Orange Prize-longlisted All the Blood is Red (1996) and Orange Laughter (1999) – follows a pair of star-crossed lovers over the course of one day on a fictional Caribbean archipelago.
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- Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19 (Jonathan Cape)
- Natasha Brown, Assembly (Hamish Hamilton)
- Keith Ridgway, A Shock (Picador)
- Leone Ross, This One Sky Day (Faber & Faber)
- Isabel Waidner, Sterling Karat Gold (Peninsula Press)
- Rebecca Watson, little scratch (Faber & Faber).
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