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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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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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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