Lucy Ellmann has won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize for Ducks, Newburyport, a 1,000-page novel written almost entirely as one sprawling sentence. The author was announced as the winner of the £10,000 prize, which runs in association with the New Statesman and rewards “fiction at its most novel”, at a ceremony at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, on Wednesday evening.
The chair of judges, Erica Wagner, called Ducks, Newburyport “that rare thing: a book which, not long after its publication, one can unhesitatingly call a masterpiece. In her gripping and hypnotic book, Ellmann remakes the novel and expands the reader’s idea of what is possible with the form. We are lucky to have such a winner this year.”
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