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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