Goldsmiths Prize
The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award founded in 2013. It is for fiction that "opens up new possibilities for the novel form".[1] It is sponsored by Goldsmiths, University of London in association with the New Statesman and has a £10,000 remuneration.[2] The award is limited to UK and Irish authors and books must be published by a UK-based publisher.[3]
Winners and shortlists
Blue Ribbon (
) = winner
2013
The shortlist for the 2013 award was announced on 1 October 2013.[4][5]
- Jim Crace, Harvest (Picador)
- Lars Iyer, Exodus (Melville House)
Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing[6][7] (Galley Beggar Press)- David Peace, Red or Dead (Faber and Faber)
- Ali Smith, Artful (Penguin Books)
- Philip Terry, tapestry (Reality Street)
2014
The shortlist for the 2014 award was announced on 1 October 2014.[8] The winner was announced 13 November 2014.[9]
- Rachel Cusk, Outline (Vintage)
- Will Eaves, The Absent Therapist (CBeditions)
- Howard Jacobson, J. (Jonathan Cape)
- Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake (Unbound Publishing)
- Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know (Picador)
- Ali Smith, How to Be Both (Penguin)
2015
The shortlist for the 2015 award was announced on 1 October 2015.[10] The winner was announced on 11 November 2015.[11]
- Kevin Barry, Beatlebone (Canongate)
- 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)
2016
The shortlist for the 2016 award was announced on 28 September 2016.[12] The winner was announced on 9 November 2016.[13]
- Rachel Cusk, Transit (Jonathan Cape)
- Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians (Faber and Faber)
- Anakana Schofield, Martin John (And Other Stories)
- Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun (Cassava Republic Press)
- Mike McCormack, Solar Bones (Tramp Press)
- Deborah Levy, Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton)
2017
The shortlist for the 2017 award was announced on 27 September 2017.[14] The winner was announced on 15 November 2017.[15]
- Nicola Barker, H(A)PPY (William Heinemann)
- 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)
2018
The shortlist for the 2018 award was announced on 26 September 2018.[16] The winner was announced on 14 November 2018.[17]
- 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)
- Robin Robertson, The Long Take (Picador)
2019
The shortlist for the 2019 award was announced on 2 October 2019.[18] The winner was announced on 13 November 2019.[19]
- Amy Arnold, Slip of a Fish (And Other Stories)
- Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press)
- Mark Haddon, The Porpoise (Chatto & Windus)
- Deborah Levy, The Man Who Saw Everything (Hamish Hamilton)
- Vesna Main, Good Day? (Salt)
- Isabel Waidner, We Are Made of Diamond Stuff (Dostoyevsky Wannabe)
References
- ^ Joshua Farrington (January 23, 2013). "Goldsmiths launches £10,000 literary prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ Alex Peake-Tomkinson (January 23, 2013). "Goldsmiths launch £10,000 literature prize". The Telegraph. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ Staff writer (January 24, 2013). "The Goldsmiths Prize". complete review. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
- ^ "Jim Crace makes Goldsmiths Prize shortlist". BBC news. 1 October 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ^ "Shortlist 2013". Goldsmiths Prize. 1 October 2013. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved October 20, 2013.
- ^ "Debut novelist Eimear McBride wins £10,000 prize". London Evening Standard. 13 November 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ "Eimear McBride wins inaugural Goldsmiths Prize for boldly original fiction". Goldsmith Prize website. 13 November 2013. Archived from the original on 16 November 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
- ^ "New Statesman | The shortlist for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced". New Statesman. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
- ^ "Ali Smith wins Goldsmiths Prize for How to be Both". BBC News. 13 November 2014. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- ^ Morgan, Tom (1 October 2015). "Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2015". Goldsmiths. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Flood, Alison (11 November 2015). "Novel about John Lennon and primal screaming wins Goldsmiths prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
- ^ Morgan, Tom (28 September 2016). "Goldsmiths Prize 2016 shortlist - six works of fiction at its most novel". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
- ^ Armitstead, Claire (9 November 2016). "Single sentence novel wins Goldsmiths prize for books that 'break the mould'". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
- ^ Tom Gatti (2 November 2017). "The Back Half: Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist Special". New Statesman. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ Laura Harding (15 November 2017). "Illuminated manuscript novel wins Goldsmiths Prize". Independent. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ^ Adam Mars-Jones (26 September 2018). "Novel senses of new: the 2018 Goldsmiths prize for fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
- ^ Alison Flood (14 November 2018). "Robin Robertson wins Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction with The Long Take". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
- ^ Ellen Peirson-Hagger (2 October 2019). "Small literary presses dominate the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist". New Statesman. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
- ^ Heloise Wood (13 November 2019). "Lucy Ellman 'masterpiece' wins Goldsmiths Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
External links
- Goldsmiths Prize, official website.
- A new literary prize celebrating boldly original fiction, New Statesman announcement of award.
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