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Polari is the “perfect slang for a freewheeling anarchist”, says the author of the Goldsmiths-shortlisted Man-Eating Typewriter.
ByThe 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.
Polari is the “perfect slang for a freewheeling anarchist”, says the author of the Goldsmiths-shortlisted Man-Eating Typewriter.
ByThe award for “fiction at its most novel” is dominated this year by authors from and writing about the north…
ByTom Lee and Ellen Peirson-Hagger complete the panel for the £10,000 prize for “literature at its most novel”.
ByNatasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s collaboration is a restlessly inventive novel about colonial injustice and human connection.
ByThe 2022 Goldsmiths Prize-winning duo on Chagos, capitalism and collaborating on their mould-breaking novel Diego Garcia.
ByNatasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s politically charged novel has won the 2022 award for mould-breaking fiction.
ByThe author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Seven Steeples on the pandemic, the death of her father and the role of…
ByThe author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies on typesetting, A Clockwork Orange, and why the…
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