How we learned to stop worrying and love modernism (again)
Modernism had all but retreated into its ivory tower – until the publishing world discovered that readers aren’t frightened of “difficult” books after…
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New 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.
Modernism had all but retreated into its ivory tower – until the publishing world discovered that readers aren’t frightened of “difficult” books after…
ByWe spoke to the six authors shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, which rewards the most innovative fiction.
ByThe author of Goldsmiths Prize-nominated Reservoir 13 on domestic abuse, following farmers on Twitter and building a novel with ring-binders and…
ByThe Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on conceptual art, mental illness, and the importance of empathy.
ByThe author of H(A)PPY on dystopias, Henry James, mindfulness and cake.
ByThe Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on relationships, misogyny and the importance of innovation in fiction.
ByThe debut novelist on how he tackled the marital chaos and unsavoury opinions of a modernist poet in his Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted…
ByWill Self on his Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Phone, his love of ellipses – and the Downton Abbey effect on literature.
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