Eimear McBride: “From a few male critics I heard the sound of petrified gonads retracting in distaste”
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author of The Lesser Bohemians on writing sex (without soft lighting) and exorcising the ghost of James Joyce.
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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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Rachel Cusk: “Tristram Shandy looks more radical than anything being written today”
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author discusses the value of risk, the challenge of proportion, and the role of builders in contemporary thought.
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika: “Breaking convention often takes courage and is seldom rewarded”
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author discusses reading for pleasure, the sexuality of older women, and the importance of diversifying literary…
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Deborah Levy: “Literature is very dusty compared to the visual arts”
Deborah Levy is a poet, playwright, short story writer and novelist. Hot Milk, her second novel to be shortlisted for…
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In defence of the comic novel
Howard Jacobson's Goldsmiths Prize lecture: from Ulysses to Herzog, the comic novel unlocks the “meaninglessness of everything”.
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Goldsmiths Prize 2016: women writers dominate the shortlist
The former winner Eimear McBride, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy are all in the running for the £10,000 prize.
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Kevin Barry’s chaotic journey from “stoner entrepreneur” to Ireland’s most unpredictable novelist
Ghosts, raves and the soul of John Lennon: Tom Gatti interviews the winner of the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize.
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“We are a selfish, idiot generation”: Ali Smith talks Scotland, politics, and why audiences want hard fiction
The award-winning author talks to Erica Wagner.
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