“A gloriously mad extrapolation”: Nicola Barker’s Goldsmiths Prize-winning novel H(A)PPY
Barker brilliantly evokes a blood-sucked future with therapy-speak language and typographical disruption.
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Goldsmiths Prize
The Goldsmiths Prize for fiction is a literary award established in 2013 in association with the New Statesman. The annual prize of £10,000 is awarded for “fiction at its most novel”. The winner for the 2024 prize will be announced on 6 November.
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Modernism had all but retreated into its ivory tower – until the publishing world discovered that readers aren’t frightened of “difficult” books after…
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Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2017: the New Statesman’s author Q&As
We spoke to the six authors shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, which rewards the most innovative fiction.
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Jon McGregor: I wanted to show how we normalise male violence
The author of Goldsmiths Prize-nominated Reservoir 13 on domestic abuse, following farmers on Twitter and building a novel with ring-binders and…
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Sara Baume: “The only right way of writing is to follow your interests with conviction”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on conceptual art, mental illness, and the importance of empathy.
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Nicola Barker: “I’m a niche writer and see no harm in it. I like niches”
The author of H(A)PPY on dystopias, Henry James, mindfulness and cake.
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Gwendoline Riley: “Human beings are incorrigible. This is a source of humour and pain”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on relationships, misogyny and the importance of innovation in fiction.
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Kevin Davey: “TS Eliot was far more than the sum of his prejudices”
The debut novelist on how he tackled the marital chaos and unsavoury opinions of a modernist poet in his Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted…
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