Deborah Levy: “The unconscious does not exist in a separate room”
Deborah Levy on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel The Man Who Saw Everything, freedom of movement and the Beatles.
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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.
Deborah Levy on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel The Man Who Saw Everything, freedom of movement and the Beatles.
ByAmy Arnold on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Slip of a Fish, science and fiction, and testing the limits of her readers’…
ByVesna Main on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Good Day?, blurring fiction and non-fiction, and why the classic realist novel doesn’t resonate…
ByWe can try to bend the novel to fit our politics or culture, but it will always go its own…
ByAlongside books by Deborah Levy and Mark Haddon, the prize for "literature at its most novel" has chosen politically engaged…
ByThe £10,000 prize for “fiction at its most novel” is also now open to authors of any nationality, provided they…
ByRobin Robertson has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, in association with the New Statesman, for his verse novel The Long…
ByRachel Cusk on political writing, the problems of female experience, and her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Kudos.
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