The 2023 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist celebrates northern fiction
The award for “fiction at its most novel” is dominated this year by authors from and writing about the north…
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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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Helen Oyeyemi and Maddie Mortimer to judge the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize
Tom Lee and Ellen Peirson-Hagger complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”.
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Why Diego Garcia won the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s collaboration is a restlessly inventive novel about colonial injustice and human connection.
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Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams: “Writers are subject to a sustained assault from the political class”
The 2022 Goldsmiths Prize-winning duo on Chagos, capitalism and collaborating on their mould-breaking novel Diego Garcia.
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Diego Garcia is the first collaborative novel to win the Goldsmiths Prize
Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s politically charged novel has won the 2022 award for mould-breaking fiction.
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Sara Baume: “I’m attracted to artists who find new ways to tread the same ground”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Seven Steeples on the pandemic, the death of her father and the role of…
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Maddie Mortimer: “My book is just furious it’s not a ballet”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies on typesetting, A Clockwork Orange, and why the…
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Yara Rodrigues Fowler: “I wanted to disorient the Anglophone reader”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel “there are more things” on revolutionary politics, Margery Kempe and cannibalising colonisers.
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