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2025 winner news

CD Rose wins £10k Goldsmiths Prize for We Live Here Now

CD Rose awarded the 2025 Goldsmiths prize

CD Rose wins Goldsmiths Prize

Winner announced on BBC Radio 4 Front Row

Monocle on Saturday, interview spot for Amy Sackville and C.D. Rose

Amy Sackville on BBC Radio 4 A Good Read

2025 shortlist news

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist

Goldsmiths Prize 2025 shortlist revealed

Cumbrian author Sarah Hall's novel shortlisted for award

2024 winner news

Rachel Cusk wins Goldsmiths prize for novel 'that turns the world inside out'

Why Rachel Cusk won the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction

Rachel Cusk wins the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize for “ferociously illuminating” novel Parade

Rachel Cusk wins Goldsmiths prize for novel 'that turns the world inside out'

Rachel Cusk's 'Parade' Wins Goldsmiths Prize

Winner of the 2024 Goldsmiths Prize Revealed

2024 shortlist news

2024 Goldsmiths prize shortlist spotlights ‘the novel at its most novel’

The Goldsmiths Prize 2024 shortlist celebrates debut novels

Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist is Announced

Debut Novelists shine in Goldsmiths Prize 2024 Shortlist

Goldsmiths Prize 2024 Shortlist Announced

Rachel Cusk’s ‘illuminating’ Parade featured on indie-dominated Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

The Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist 2024

2023 Winner News

Cuddy wins 2023 Goldsmiths Prize

Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths Prize

Myers wins Goldsmiths Prize for Cuddy

Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths prize for ‘vital’ novel Cuddy

Benjamin Myers wins the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize for “virtuosic” novel Cuddy

Myers wins £10k Goldsmiths Prize for 'bold and experimental' book Cuddy

2023 Shortlist News

Goldsmiths Prize shortlist revealed with northern authors dominating

The Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2023

A Saint, A Sinner And A Sprog: Goldsmiths Book Prize Shortlist Announced

A saint, a sinner and a sprog: Goldsmiths book prize shortlist announced

The 2023 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist celebrates northern fiction

Milward, Thirlwell and Myers shortlisted for the £10k Goldsmiths Prize 2023

2022 Winner News

Soobramanien, Williams win Goldsmiths Prize for “Diego Garcia”

Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams win Goldsmiths Prize 2022

Soobramanien, Williams win Goldsmiths Prize for “Diego Garcia”

Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams: a gripping and grounding book, both in style and substance

Goldsmiths prize goes to collaborative duo Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams

Soobramanien and Williams become first duo to win Goldsmiths Prize

2022 Shortlist News

The 2022 Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist Is Announced

Goldsmiths Prize 2022 shortlist announced

Goldsmiths Prize 2022 Shortlist

Goldsmiths Prize unveils ‘exhilarating’ shortlist in 10th anniversary year

Goldsmiths prize shortlist features a first: twin-authored novel Diego Garcia

2021 Winner News

Read Your Way Through London

Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner, review: surrealist satire – with toreadors and spaceships

Waidner wins Goldsmiths Prize

Queen Mary’s Isabel Waidner wins Goldsmiths Prize

Isabel Waidner wins the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold

Waidner wins £10k Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold

Isabel Waidner wins Goldsmiths prize for ‘mindbending’ Sterling Karat Gold

Isabel Waidner wins the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold

2021 Shortlist News

Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist: The six most cutting-edge novelists writing today

Debuts by Brown and Watson make Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Keith Ridgway and Claire-Louise Bennett on Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist

Goldsmiths Prize 2021 shortlist announced

Mathematician and journalist among authors vying for Goldsmiths Prize

Goldsmiths Prize 2021 Shortlist

Rebecca Watson: “A person is multitudinous, but also paradoxically, impossibly and perfectly one thing”

Keith Ridgway: “There is an instinct in people for solidarity, connection and laughter”

Natasha Brown: “It’s important to celebrate difficult novels”

2020 Goldsmiths Prize Winner

M. John Harrison wins the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize with The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

'A literary masterpiece': M. John Harrison wins Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction

Goldsmiths Prize won by Harrison for 'literary masterpiece'

M. John Harrison wins Goldsmiths Prize for tale of broken life in Brexit Britain

Queer fish, no water: This year's Goldsmiths prizewinner

2020 Shortlist News

Veteran science fiction writer makes Goldsmiths Prize 2020 shortlist

DBC Pierre's smartphone era novel leads Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Guo and Pierre make Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Bina by Anakana Schofield shortlisted for £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize 

Goldsmiths Prize shortlist is revealed

Anakana Schofield shortlisted for $17K Goldsmiths Prize for Bina

The weird, the wonderful and the man-mermaid sex scene 

2019 Goldsmiths Prize Winner

One long sentence, 1000 pages: Lucy Ellmann 'masterpiece' wins Goldsmiths prize

Lucy Ellmann wins the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize with Ducks, Newburyport

Lucy Ellmann 'masterpiece' wins Goldsmiths Prize

Lucy Ellmann wins the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize for Ducks, Newburyport

Ducks, Newburyport wins 2019 Goldsmiths Prize

Humour too relies on chaos, says Lucy Ellmann with her new book Ducks

2019 Shortlist News

Small presses dominate the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist
 

Lucy Ellmann's long sentence leads to Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Ellmann, Haddon and Levy make Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

South Lakes author shortlisted for prestigious award for debut book
 

2018 Goldsmiths Prize Winner

Robin Robertson wins Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction with The Long Take

Why we chose Robin Robertson The Long Take as winner of the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize

Cape publisher Robertson takes £10K Goldsmiths Prize for 'convention-defying' noir narrative

Robin Robertson wins Goldsmiths Prize 2018 for The Long Take

2018 Shortlist News

2018 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist revealed

The Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 'breaks the mould'

Cusk, Laing and Robertson vie for £10k Goldsmiths Prize

Novel senses of new: the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize for fiction shortlist

Rachel Cusk makes Goldsmiths Prize shortlist for third time

2017 Goldsmiths Prize Winner

Nicola Barker interview: 'I was broke so the Goldsmiths Prize came at the right time'

Nicola Barker: 'Each novel has its own specially designed notebook. These are sacred objects to me.'

Best of Books and Art: Nicola Barker, Red Room Poetry, Bangaroo Project, Book to Film

A h(a)ppy ending for Nicola Barker - a true experimentalist

Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize for H(a)ppy

Nicola Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize for her novel H(a)ppy

Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize with 'experimental' and 'defiant' novel

"A gloriously mad extrapolation": Nicola Barker's Goldsmiths Prize-winning novel H(a)ppy

Nicola Barker becomes first English author to win Goldsmiths Prize for 'fabulous, innovative' novel H(a)ppy

Nicola Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize with H(a)ppy

Illuminated manuscript wins Goldsmiths Prize 

Illuminated manuscript novel wins the Goldsmiths Prize

Barker wins Goldsmiths Prize

2017 Shortlist News

Dewi Uridge on the process of making this year's Goldsmiths Prize Trophy

Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2017: The New Statesman's author Q&As

Self and McGregor on Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Modernist masters and oddball challengers: the Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 

Will Self's novel with no paragraph breaks is up for Goldsmiths Prize

2016 Goldsmiths Prize Winner

Mayo author longlisted for Man Booker Prize

Mike McCormack says awards "cut away some of the loneliness"

Mike McCormack secures major publishing deal

Canongate buys rights to Goldsmiths Prize winner

Irish author Mike McCormack wins €11.5k for one-sentence book Solar Bones

Goldsmiths Prize: Single Sentence Novel wins £10,000 award

Shock winner of £10,000 Goldsmiths book prize is only ONE sentence long

Mike McCormack wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 for his novel Solar Bones 

Mike McCormack wins Goldsmiths Prize for Solar Bones

Mike McCormack says Goldsmiths Prize win is ‘payback’ for his publisher Tramp

Irish author wins prestigious prize after writing an entire novel using just one sentence

McCormack's Solar Bones wins the Goldsmiths Prize

Single sentence novel wins Goldsmiths prize for books that 'break the mould'

Mike McCormack talks to BBC Radio 4 Front Row live from the Goldsmiths Prize award ceremony

Mike McCormack: “British fiction is dominated by an intellectual conservatism


2016 Shortlist News

Why it matters that Sarah L. Manyika is on the Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist

Goldsmiths Prize 2016: Women dominate the shortlist 

Goldsmiths Prize shortlists novels 'that break the mould'

Cassava Republic title shortlisted for Goldsmiths Prize

Three Irish authors on £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

2015 Goldsmiths Prize Winner

John Lennon book wins Goldsmiths Prize

Irish author Kevin Barry wins £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize

Kevin Barry wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2015 for his novel Beatlebone

Novel about John Lennon and primal screaming wins Goldsmiths prize

Kevin Barry talks to BBC Radio 4 Front Row live from the Goldsmiths Prize award ceremony
BBC Radio 4 Front Row, 11 November 2015

Barry's Beatlebone wins Goldsmiths Prize 2015

Barry shocked at 'wet week' prize for Beatlebone

Irish author Kevin Barry wins Goldsmiths prize for ‘Beatlebone’

2015 Shortlist News

Goldsmiths book prize shortlist: Lennon, Jesus and life at the edges

The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 shortlist

The Cape shortlisted twice for Goldsmiths Prize

2014 Goldsmiths Prize Winner

Ali Smith talks to BBC Radio 4 Front Row live from the Goldsmiths Prize award ceremony

On this week’s New Statesman podcast: Episode Sixty-Eight Miliband's next move, the Goldsmiths Prize and landing on a comet

Ali Smith wins Goldsmiths Prize for How to be Both

'The new novel' by Francis Spufford

Ali Smith takes Goldsmiths Prize for How to Be Both

Ali Smith wins Goldsmiths prize for bifurcating marvel How to Be Both

Ali Smith wins the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize for her novel “How To Be Both”

Ali Smith wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2014: a judge’s view

2014 Shortlist News

Goldsmiths book prize shortlist includes crowd-funded first novel

All must have prizes! How the ӣƵ and Folio awards are changing the literary landscape

The shortlist for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced

Goldsmiths Prize 2013 winner

Prize-winning first novelists Eimear McBride and Nathan Filer on BBC Radio3's Free Thinking

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing review – Eimear McBride's daring and dazzling novel

Baileys Women's Prize 2014: A thriving longlist announced

Irish author’s debut novel shortlisted for second major prize

Eimear McBride shortlisted for the £40,000 Folio Prize

Books review of the year 2013

Eimear McBride talks to BBC Radio4 Front Row's Kirsty Lang about her remarkable novel

Tom Sutcliffe & guests discuss the 'really talented' Eimear McBride's 'brilliant' A Girl is a Half-formed Thing on BBC Radio4's Saturday Review

Eimear McBride’s books of the year

Eimear McBride talks about A Girl is a Half-formed Thing on RTE's Sunday with Miriam

Irish literature's books of the dark

"I suppose this is some kind of masterpiece": how a prize-winning novel was rejected by the publishing industry

Debut novelist Eimear McBride wins first Goldsmiths prize

Eimear McBride wins £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for literature

Eimear McBride wins inaugural Goldsmiths Prize

Irish author scoops prize for ‘boldly original fiction’

Debut novelist Eimear McBride wins £10,000 prize

Irish novelist wins £10,000 award for book first rejected nine years ago

Debut Irish novelist Eimear McBride wins literary prize

McBride wins first Goldsmiths Prize

Debut novelist Eimear McBride wins Goldsmiths Prize for literature

2013 Shortlist news


The Guardian, 12 November 2013

Man Booker 2013: Top 25 literary prizes

Jim Crace makes Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Irish novel shortlisted for prize after years of rejections

The Goldsmiths Prize: Where the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction cede to creativity

'Creative daring' celebrated on first Goldsmiths Prize shortlist

Goldsmiths Prize launch

Blake Morrison discusses the prize and considers what being experimental and innovative means for 21st century novelists with Alex Preston and Mariella Frostrup
BBC Radio 4’s ‘Open Book’, 10 February 2013

Who dares wins
The Times Higher Education, 31 January 2013


The Bookseller, 23 January 2013

A new literary prize celebrating boldly original fiction 

Goldsmiths launch £10,000 literature prize