Paul Griffiths: “Beethoven was the first composer to address us with a consistent voice”
The music critic, author and librettist on his Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel Mr Beethoven, and using fiction to better understand history.
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M John Harrison: “A number of novels don’t sit well in their genre of origin”
The English novelist on the power of innovative fiction, the “sad but luminous muddle” of being alive, and his Goldsmiths-shortlisted work The…
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Anakana Schofield: “I’m glad to be confused by literature”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novelist on writing about older women, “dreary, middlebrow” literature and why she volunteers for Dying with Dignity.
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Will Eaves and Frances Wilson to judge the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize
Chris Power and Sarah Ladipo Manyika complete the panel for the £10,000 prize awarded to fiction that “breaks the mould”.
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Lucy Ellmann wins the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize with Ducks, Newburyport
The Illinois-born author wins this year’s prize for “fiction at its most novel” with her 1,000-page epic.
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The 2019 Goldsmiths shortlist in reviews
Before the announcement of the winner this evening, read our verdict on the six books shortlisted for this year's prize.
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Why Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport won the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize
Lucy Ellmann has been awarded this year’s Goldsmiths Prize, in association with the New Statesman, for her 1,000-page novel Ducks,…
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Isabel Waidner: “There is huge, under-explored potential in ‘innovative’ literature”
Isabel Waidner on their Goldsmiths-shortlisted novel We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff, marginalised writers, and the Isle of Wight.
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