Helen Oyeyemi and Maddie Mortimer to judge the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize
Tom Lee and Ellen Peirson-Hagger complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”.
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Why Diego Garcia won the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction
Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s collaboration is a restlessly inventive novel about colonial injustice and human connection.
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Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams: “Writers are subject to a sustained assault from the political class”
The 2022 Goldsmiths Prize-winning duo on Chagos, capitalism and collaborating on their mould-breaking novel Diego Garcia.
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Diego Garcia is the first collaborative novel to win the Goldsmiths Prize
Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s politically charged novel has won the 2022 award for mould-breaking fiction.
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Sara Baume: “I’m attracted to artists who find new ways to tread the same ground”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Seven Steeples on the pandemic, the death of her father and the role of…
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Maddie Mortimer: “My book is just furious it’s not a ballet”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies on typesetting, A Clockwork Orange, and why the…
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Yara Rodrigues Fowler: “I wanted to disorient the Anglophone reader”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel “there are more things” on revolutionary politics, Margery Kempe and cannibalising colonisers.
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Why the novel matters
Against the “imperialism of the absolute” – a personal manifesto on the art of fiction.
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Mona Arshi: “We unexpectedly stumble over memories like trip wires”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Somebody Loves You discusses Antigone, Michaela Coel and putting language over a Bunsen…
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Helen Oyeyemi: “My favourite stories leave me looking like a shocked face emoji”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Peaces on mongooses, Korean drama and “discipline in the pursuit of chaos”.
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The Goldsmiths Prize 2022 shortlist: “creative daring” and political activism
In its tenth year, the award for “fiction at its most novel” presents a politically charged shortlist dominated by female…
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Karl Ove Knausgård to launch tenth anniversary celebration of Goldsmiths Prize
The Norwegian author’s lecture on “why the novel matters” will mark a decade of the groundbreaking fiction prize.
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Why Isabel Waidner won the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize
In Sterling Karat Gold the author writes with incandescent rage and surreal humour.
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Isabel Waidner wins the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold
Described as “Kafka’s The Trial written for the era of gaslighting”, Waidner's third novel has won the £10,000 prize for…
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Natasha Brown: “It’s important to celebrate difficult novels”
The author on her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted debut, health inequality, and the influence of bell hooks and Jane Austen.
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Claire-Louise Bennett: “The brink of adulthood is a very uncomfortable time”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on style, the problem with “promise”, and why Garibaldi biscuits are the best in the world.
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Leone Ross: “Age is not a withering – it’s a revolution”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on magic realism, language, and why This One Sky Day took 15 years to write.
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Keith Ridgway: “There is an instinct in people for solidarity, connection and laughter”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on Muriel Spark, south London and his fifth novel A Shock.
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Rebecca Watson: “A person is multitudinous, but also paradoxically, impossibly and perfectly one thing”
The author on Virginia Woolf, forgetting the names of books, and her Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Little Scratch.
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Isabel Waidner: “The British novel reproduces white middle-class values and aesthetics”
The author on their Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted book Sterling Karat Gold, humour, and why the novel has to change.
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