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Goldsmiths prize


November 2023

  • Benjamin Myers.

    Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths prize for ‘vital’ novel Cuddy

    Award for mould-breaking fiction goes to multi-genre work – ‘part poetry, part electricity’ – retelling the story of Durham Cathedral

October 2023

  • Pile of the six shortlisted books

    A saint, a sinner and a sprog: Goldsmiths book prize shortlist announced

    Six books are up for the award celebrating innovative fiction, including Benjamin Myers’ account of St Cuthbert and a ‘great trans novel’ set in a small northern town

July 2023

  • Isabel Waidner won the Goldsmiths prize in 2021.

    Book of the day
    Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner review – a surreal journey

    The fantastical and the familiar merge in this energetic inquiry into class politics and cultural capital

November 2022

  • Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams.

    Goldsmiths prize goes to collaborative duo Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams

    Their novel Diego Garcia, which took a decade to complete and addresses the losses of the Chagos islanders, wins prize for innovative fiction

October 2022

  • The cutting edge … shortlisted books for the 2022 Goldsmiths prize

    Goldsmiths prize shortlist features a first: twin-authored novel Diego Garcia

    Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’ ‘extraordinary’ work sits alongside a field of creatively ambitious writing that finds new ways of telling stories

November 2021

  • Isabel Waidner

    Isabel Waidner wins Goldsmiths prize for ‘mindbending’ Sterling Karat Gold

    Waidner’s third novel follows a non-binary migrant who is arrested in London in what has been described as ‘Kafka’s The Trial written for the era of gaslighting’

November 2020

  • M. John Harrison Portrait Shoot<br>Editorial Use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by Kevin Nixon/Future/REX/Shutterstock (3674341ah) London United Kingdom - May 3: Portrait Of English Fantasy And Science Fiction Author M. John Harrison Photographed At His London Home On May 3 2013. Harrison Is Best Known For His Viroconium Series Of Novels M. John Harrison Portrait Shoot LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 3: Portrait of English fantasy and science fiction author M. John Harrison photographed at his London home, on May 3, 2013. Harrison is best known for his Viroconium series of novels. (Photo by Kevin Nixon/SFX Magazine)

    'A literary masterpiece': M John Harrison wins Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction

    The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again wins the £10,000 prize for ‘fiction that breaks the mould’

October 2020

  • DBC Pierre.

    DBC Pierre’s smartphone era novel leads Goldsmiths prize shortlist

    Meanwhile in Dopamine City, which is told in two columns to mimic our divided attention, is one of six finalists for the award for ‘fiction at its most novel’

January 2020

  • Author Eimear McBride, photographed 4 December 2019

    Eimear McBride: ‘Women are really angry. I feel a deep, burning sense of injustice at the way women are treated’

    Her modernist debut explored the trauma of a young woman, while her latest novel examines the loneliness of middle age. The novelist talks about powering fiction with fury

November 2019

  • Lucy Ellmann, winner of the 2019 Goldsmiths prize

    One long sentence, 1,000 pages: Lucy Ellmann 'masterpiece' wins Goldsmiths prize

    Ducks, Newburyport wins £10,000 prize for fiction that ‘breaks the mould’ of the novel, a month after missing out on the Booker

October 2019

  • Lucy Ellmann.

    Lucy Ellmann's long sentence leads to Goldsmiths shortlist

    Prize for mould-breaking fiction lists Ducks, Newburyport alongside innovative works by Mark Haddon, Deborah Levy, Amy Arnold, Vesna Main and Isabel Waidner

November 2018

  • ‘A book with a big heart’ ... Robin Robertson.

    Robin Robertson wins Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction with The Long Take

  • Review Magazine Inside Spread - Reading difficult books

    Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work ... better? Why we need difficult books

September 2018

  • Writer and novelist Rachel Cusk photographed at her home in Norfolk, England.

    Books blog
    Novel senses of new: the 2018 Goldsmiths prize for fiction shortlist

    Adam Mars-Jones
    As the 2018 shortlist is announced, the chair of this year’s judges explains how they hope to reward more than simple innovation

February 2018

  • Claire Armitstead

    Books blog
    Awards for women, writers of colour, small presses – why are there so many books prizes?

    Claire Armitstead
    There are so many literary prizes these days that they could be regarded as an industry in their own right – but they’re needed to change the status quo

November 2017

  • ‘A work of vaulting ambition’ … Nicola Barker has won the 2017 Goldsmiths prize for H(a)ppy.

    Nicola Barker wins Goldsmiths prize for her novel H(a)ppy

    Barker beats novels by Will Self and Jon McGregor to take home the £10,000 literary prize for her narrative-bending vision of a dystopian future

November 2016

  • Mike McCormack, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths prize.

    Point of view
    Blake Morrison on the Goldsmiths prize for fiction: ‘There are still things to say that haven’t been said before’

  • Mike McCormack, winner of the 2016 Goldmiths prize for Solar Bones

    Single sentence novel wins Goldsmiths prize for books that 'break the mould'

November 2015

  • Kevin Barry.

    Novel about John Lennon and primal screaming wins Goldsmiths prize

    Award for innovative fiction goes to Beatlebone by Kevin Barry, praised by judges for its ‘spirit of creative risk’

October 2015

  • Eimear McBride

    Books blog
    Eimear McBride on the 2015 Goldsmiths prize: why experimental fiction is dear to my heart

    From Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone to Max Porter’s Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, this year’s shortlist is irresistible, even if all male
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