Will Self: The nostalgia of the “heritage novel” leaves me reaching for my gun
Will Self on his Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Phone, his love of ellipses – and the Downton Abbey effect on literature.
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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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The Back Half: Ali Smith on the novel in the age of Trump
The new NS culture podcast brings you the novelist's recent lecture on the state of the novel.
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Modernist masters and oddball challengers: the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist
A first novel about a fictionalised TS Eliot from a tiny press is up against Will Self and Nicola Barker for…
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Our critics’ verdicts on the six shortlisted novels.
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Tracey Thorn and A L Kennedy to judge the 2017 Goldsmiths Prize
The prize for “fiction at its most novel” announces its 2017 judging panel.
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Mike McCormack wins the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize for his novel Solar Bones
A Goldsmiths Prize judge on the third Irish winner of the award for innovative fiction, run in association with the…
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Breaking the mould: the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted authors on innovative fiction
The Goldsmiths Prize rewards fiction that “extends the possibilities of the novel form”. In a series of interviews, the six authors shortlisted…
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Mike McCormack: “British fiction is dominated by an intellectual conservatism”
The 2016 Goldsmiths Prize winner on engineers, Solar Bones, and why Irish writers have to translate themselves.
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