Lucy Ellmann: “You’re on your own with this book, no nursemaid”
Lucy Ellmann on her Goldsmiths Prize-winning novel Ducks, Newburyport, the female experience and scaring “the shit out of” her readers.
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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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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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Amy Arnold: “Writing something so dangerous genuinely scared me”
Amy Arnold on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Slip of a Fish, science and fiction, and testing the limits of her readers’…
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Vesna Main: “Literature is art, not a commodity”
Vesna Main on her Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Good Day?, blurring fiction and non-fiction, and why the classic realist novel doesn’t resonate…
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Why the novel matters
We can try to bend the novel to fit our politics or culture, but it will always go its own…
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Small literary presses dominate the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist
Alongside books by Deborah Levy and Mark Haddon, the prize for "literature at its most novel" has chosen politically engaged…
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Guy Gunaratne and Maura Dooley to judge the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize
The £10,000 prize for “fiction at its most novel” is also now open to authors of any nationality, provided they…
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Why we chose Robin Robertson’s The Long Take as the winner of the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize
Robin Robertson has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, in association with the New Statesman, for his verse novel The Long…
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