Natasha Brown: “It’s important to celebrate difficult novels”
The author on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted debut, health inequality, and the influence of bell hooks and Jane Austen.
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
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 to a book that “breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.” Interviews with the 2023 shortlisted authors can be found below and the winner will be announced on 8 November 2023.
The author on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted debut, health inequality, and the influence of bell hooks and Jane Austen.
ByThe Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on style, the problem with “promise”, and why Garibaldi biscuits are the best in the world.
ByThe Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on magic realism, language, and why This One Sky Day took 15 years to write.
ByThe Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on Muriel Spark, south London and his fifth novel A Shock.
ByThe author on Virginia Woolf, forgetting the names of books, and her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Little Scratch.
ByThe author on their Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted book Sterling Karat Gold, humour, and why the novel has to change.
ByThe £10,000 award, run in association with the New Statesman, celebrates fiction that “breaks the mould and extends the possibilities…
ByFred D’Aguiar and Johanna Thomas-Corr complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”.
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