Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan to judge the Goldsmiths Prize 2025
Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.
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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 2025 prize will be announced in November.
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Why Rachel Cusk won the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
Her novel Parade, slim but complex, is the latest product of a career dedicated to breaking new formal ground.
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The award for inventive fiction goes to a book replete with ideas about art, literature and freedom.
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The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on visual art, writing womanhood, and the value of difficulty in literature.
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Han Smith: “Fiction that takes risks shows how electric our minds can be”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the power of portraits, living language, and Russia’s silenced history.
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Jonathan Buckley: “In my novel, there is no Fine Writing”
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Neel Mukherjee: “Isn’t all writing a form of appropriation?”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on reclaiming the political novel, the chimera of choice under late capitalism, and Nicki Minaj.
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Mark Bowles: “My book rages against the business-model view of the world”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on the value of art, making himself laugh, and finding characters in the café.
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