Lara Pawson: “I like to write with rules. It pushes my mind into strange places”
The Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted author on making art from objects, and what civil wars taught her about human nature.
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Goldsmiths Prize
The Goldsmiths Prize for fiction is a literary award established in 2013 in association with the New Statesman. The annual prize of £10,000 is awarded for “fiction at its most novel”. The winner for the 2025 prize will be announced in November.
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The Goldsmiths Prize 2024 shortlist celebrates debut novels
Three first-time novelists are among the six writers nominated for the £10,000 award for fiction that “breaks the mould”.
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Xiaolu Guo and Sara Baume to judge the Goldsmiths Prize 2024
Lola Seaton and Abigail Shinn complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.
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Why we chose Benjamin Myers’s Cuddy as the Goldsmiths Prize winner
The time-travelling story about faith, nationhood and the north upends preconceptions of the “historical novel”.
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Benjamin Myers wins the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize for “virtuosic” novel Cuddy
The award for “mould-breaking” fiction goes to a millennia-spanning epic about St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne.
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Amy Arnold: “We’re unaccustomed to being pushed up against the inner life of another person”
The author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted Lori & Joe on walking, suspense and capturing consciousness in prose.
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Adam Thirlwell: “Everyone has become a kind of manic everyday literary critic”
The Goldsmiths-shortlisted author on aliens, revolutionary France and our era of misinformation.
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H Gareth Gavin: “I’m more interested in stubbornness than in hope”
The Goldsmiths-shortlisted author of Never Was on transness as “a tussle with history”.
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