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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Goldsmiths Prize 2023
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.
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Goldsmiths Prize 2023
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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Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist: The six most cutting-edge novelists writing today
The £10,000 award, run in association with the New Statesman, celebrates fiction that “breaks the mould and extends the possibilities…
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Kamila Shamsie and Nell Stevens to judge 2021 Goldsmiths Prize
Fred D’Aguiar and Johanna Thomas-Corr complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”.
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