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 |
The Goldsmiths Prize | |
---|---|
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
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 |