Tariq Goddard

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Tariq Goddard (born 1975) is a British novelist and publisher. He has written seven novels, the first of which Homage to a Firing Squad, was short-listed for the Whitbread Book Award for First Novel. His first three novels were published by Sceptre. In 2007, he founded the independent publishing company, Zero Books, and is now the publisher of Repeater Books.

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Life and career

Goddard was born in London and read philosophy at King's College, London, and Continental Philosophy at the University of Warwick and the University of Surrey. In 2002 his first novel, Homage to a Firing Squad, was nominated for the Whitbread (Costa) Book Award for First Novel. [1] [2] It was also nominated for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize literary award for comic literature. [3] He was included as one of Waterstones' 'Faces of the Future' and the novel, whose film rights where sold, [4] was listed as one of The Observer's Four Debuts of the year.

In 2003 his second novel, Dynamo , was cited as one of the ten best sports novels of all time by The Observer Sports Magazine. The Morning Rides Behind Us, his third novel, was released in 2005, [5] and short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Fiction. In 2010 The Picture of Contented New Wealth, his fourth novel, won The Independent Publishers Award for Horror Writing and he was awarded a development grant by The Royal Literary Fund. The Message, published in 2011 and set in a fictional African state, [6] received Silver at the 2012 Independent Publishers Award for Literary Fiction. [7] His sixth novel Nature and Necessity was published in 2017. [8] The Repeater Book of the Occult, edited by Tariq Goddard and “horror philosopher” Eugene Thacker, was published in 2021. [9] Goddard is a frequent contributor to The Quietus, and has written an opinion piece "Why Music Journalism is Important." [10]

In 2007 Goddard began the imprint Zero Books. In 2014 he and his co-founders left Zero Books and started Repeater Books. [11] He lives on a farm in Wiltshire with his wife and two sons. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ BBC News (14 November 2002). "Couple battle for Whitbread prize"
  2. ↑ Patalay, Ajesh (8 August 2005). "Fashion junkie: Tariq Goddard". Daily Telegraph
  3. ↑ The Guardian (2002). "In search of funny fiction"
  4. ↑ The Scotsman (6 December 2002). "Free spirit looks back in anger"
  5. ↑ James, Urquhart (7 September 2005). "The Morning Rides Behind Us by Tariq Goddard". The Independent
  6. ↑ BBC2 The Review Show (30 September 2011).
  7. ↑ Independent Publisher. "2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results". Jenkins Group
  8. ↑ "Nature and Necessity by Tariq Goddard review – debauchery and class war in the country". the Guardian. 18 October 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  9. ↑ "The Repeater Book of the Occult: Book Review". Folk Horror Revival & Urban Wyrd Project ⨘. 15 February 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  10. ↑ For a listing of articles by Goddard, see The Quietus website.
  11. ↑ 3:AM Magazine (5 December 2014). Why we Quit: Tariq Goddard on Leaving Zero Books"
  12. ↑ Repeater Books. Tariq Goddard Archived 2017-10-03 at the Wayback Machine
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