The Goldsmiths Prize | |
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Awarded for | Innovative or experimental novels |
Location | United Kingdom and Ireland |
Presented by | Goldsmiths, University of London The New Statesman |
Reward(s) | £10,000 |
First awarded | 13 November 2013 |
Website | https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/ |
The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award, founded in 2013 by Goldsmiths, University of London, in association with the New Statesman. [1] It is awarded annually to a piece of fiction that "breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form." [2] [3] It is limited to citizens and residents of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and to novels published by presses based in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner receives £10,000. [4] Tim Parnell of the Goldsmiths English department conceived and runs the prize, inspired by his research into Laurence Sterne and other eighteenth-century writers, like Denis Diderot, who experimented with the novel form. [5] [2] The prize "casts its net wider than most other prizes" and intends to celebrate "creative daring," but resists the phrase "experimental fiction," because it implies "an eccentric deviation from the novel’s natural concerns, structures and idioms." [2] [5] To date, Rachel Cusk is the author best represented on the prize's shortlists, having been shortlisted for each book of her Outline trilogy.
Year | Author | Novel | Publisher | Notes |
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2023 | Benjamin Myers | Cuddy | Bloomsbury | The shortlist was announced on 4 October, with the winner announced on 8 November. [6] |
Amy Arnold | Lori & Joe | Prototype | ||
Kate Briggs | The Long Form | Fitzcarraldo Editions | ||
Gareth H. Gavin | Never Was | Cipher Press | ||
Richard Milward | Man-Eating Typewriter | White Rabbit | ||
Adam Thirlwell | The Future Future | Cape | ||
2022 | Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams | Diego Garcia | Fitzcarraldo Editions | The shortlist was announced on 5 October, and the winner on 10 November. [7] |
Mona Arshi | Somebody Loves You | And Other Stories | ||
Sara Baume | Seven Steeples | Tramp Press | ||
Maddie Mortimer | Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies | Picador | ||
Helen Oyeyemi | Peaces | Faber & Faber | ||
Yara Rodrigues Fowler | there are more things | Fleet | ||
2021 | Isabel Waidner | Sterling Karat Gold | Peninsula Press | The shortlist was announced on 6 October, [8] and the winner on 10 November. [4] |
Claire-Louise Bennett | Checkout 19 | Jonathan Cape | ||
Natasha Brown | Assembly | Hamish Hamilton | ||
Keith Ridgway | A Shock | New Directions | ||
Leone Ross | This One Sky Day | Faber and Faber | ||
Rebecca Watson | little scratch | Faber and Faber | ||
2020 | M. John Harrison | The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again | Gollancz | The shortlist was announced on 14 October, [9] and the winner on 11 November. [10] |
Paul Griffiths | Mr Beethoven | Henningham Family Press | ||
Xiaolu Guo | A Lover's Discourse | Chatto & Windus | ||
DBC Pierre | Meanwhile in Dopamine City | Faber | ||
Monique Roffey | The Mermaid of Black Conch | Peepal Tree Press | ||
Anakana Schofield | Bina | Fleet | ||
2019 | Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Galley Beggar Press | The shortlist was announced on 2 October, [11] and the winner on 13 November. [12] |
Isabel Waidner | We Are Made of Diamond Stuff | Dostoyevsky Wannabe | ||
Vesna Main | Good Day? | Salt | ||
Amy Arnold | Slip of a Fish | And Other Stories | ||
Mark Haddon | The Porpoise | Chatto & Windus | ||
Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | Hamish Hamilton | ||
2018 | Robin Robertson | The Long Take | Picador | The shortlist was announced on 26 September, [13] and the winner on 14 November. [14] |
Rachel Cusk | Kudos | Faber | ||
Will Eaves | Murmur | CB Editions | ||
Guy Gunaratne | In Our Mad and Furious City | Headline | ||
Gabriel Josipovici | The Cemetery in Barnes | Carcanet | ||
Olivia Laing | Crudo | Picador | ||
2017 | Nicola Barker | H(A)PPY | William Heinemann | The shortlist was announced on 27 September, [15] and the winner on 15 November 2017. [16] |
Sara Baume | A Line Made by Walking | William Heinemann | ||
Kevin Davey | Playing Possum | Aaargh! Press | ||
Jon McGregor | Reservoir 13 | Fourth Estate | ||
Gwendoline Riley | First Love | Granta | ||
Will Self | Phone | Viking | ||
2016 | Mike McCormack | Solar Bones | Tramp Press | The shortlist was announced on 28 September, [17] and the winner on 9 November. [18] |
Deborah Levy | Hot Milk | Hamish Hamilton | ||
Sarah Ladipo Manyika | Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun | Cassava Republic Press | ||
Anakana Schofield | Martin John | And Other Stories | ||
Eimear McBride | The Lesser Bohemians | Faber and Faber | ||
Rachel Cusk | Transit | Jonathan Cape | ||
2015 | Kevin Barry | Beatlebone | Canongate | The shortlist was announced on 1 October, [19] and the winner on 11 November. [20] All the authors on the shortlist were men. [21] |
Richard Beard | Acts of the Assassins | Vintage | ||
Magnus Mills | The Field of the Cloth of Gold | Bloomsbury Publishing | ||
Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Jonathan Cape | ||
Max Porter | Grief is the Thing with Feathers | Faber and Faber | ||
Adam Thirlwell | Lurid & Cute | Jonathan Cape | ||
2014 | Ali Smith | How to Be Both | Penguin | The shortlist was announced on 1 October, [22] and the winner on 13 November. [23] |
Rachel Cusk | Outline | Vintage | ||
Will Eaves | The Absent Therapist | CB Editions | ||
Howard Jacobson | J | Jonathan Cape | ||
Paul Kingsnorth | The Wake | Unbound Publishing | ||
Zia Haider Rahman | In the Light of What We Know | Picador | ||
2013 | Eimear McBride | A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing | Galley Beggar Press | The shortlist was announced on 1 October, [24] [25] and the winner on 13 November. [26] [27] |
Philip Terry | tapestry | Reality Street | ||
Jim Crace | Harvest | Picador | ||
Lars Iyer | Exodus | Melville House | ||
David Peace | Red or Dead | Faber and Faber | ||
Ali Smith | Artful | Penguin Books |
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