M John Harrison has won the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize for The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, a novel set in a world on the brink of collapse. The winner of the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize, which celebrates “fiction at its most novel” and is run in association with the New Statesman, was announced during an online ceremony on Wednesday evening.
Goldsmiths judge Will Eaves said: “The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again is a brilliant realist fantasy about love in middle age and the dissolution of the postwar settlement. In a series of startling knights’ moves across our inner and outer landscapes, M John Harrison quietly overturns all grounds for supposing we know who we are and where we have come from.”
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