Rachel Cusk: “I think of Brexit as a psychodrama”
Rachel Cusk on political writing, the problems of female experience, and her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Kudos.
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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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Robin Robertson Q&A: “I was literally making it up as I went along“
The poet discusses film noir, the lost heart of Los Angeles, and his Goldsmith Prize-winning verse novel The Long Take.
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Guy Gunaratne: “As a Londoner, it feels natural to write toward multiplicity”
Guy Gunaratne on his Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel In Our Mad And Furious City, “authenticity” in fiction, and why you can’t write…
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Gabriel Josipovici: “I abhor art of any kind that follows agendas”
Gabriel Josipovici on his Goldsmiths-shortlised novel The Cemetery in Barnes, agendas in fiction, and whether literary prizes are a force for…
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Will Eaves: “Smart tech is a mechanism of control”
The Goldsmiths Prize shortlisted author discusses literary pleasure, artificial intelligence and back pain.
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Olivia Laing: “I stopped being able to distinguish news from rumour, paranoia and supposition”
Olivia Laing discusses her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Crudo, the unstable political moment, and the book that best describes how fascism…
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Rachel Cusk makes Goldsmiths Prize shortlist for the third time
The prize for “fiction at its most novel” has nominated Cusk for the third time in four years, for the final…
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Elif Shafak and Deborah Levy to judge the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize
Nicholas Lezard and Adam Mars-Jones complete the judging panel for the £10,000 prize for “fiction at its most novel”.
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