Why CD Rose won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
His fourth book We Live Here Now challenges the novel’s form by focusing on texture, atmosphere and resonance
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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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Charlie Porter: “Every word is tested”
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The Goldsmiths Prize 2025 celebrates new perspectives
Four first-time novelists are among the six writers shortlisted for the £10,000 award for fiction that “breaks the mould”.
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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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