Goldsmiths Prize

The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary prize awarded annually since 2013 by the College Goldsmiths, University of London in conjunction with the New Statesman . He is endowed with 10,000 pounds sterling .

The main objective is to reward unusual novel forms that break the established aesthetic conventions ("to break the mold"). The poet Blake Morrison, full-time professor of creative writing at the awarding university, said that it was hoped that this new literary prize would encourage more daring and audacity among writers. The award website explicitly refers to the well-known quote from Laurence Sterne : 'I have laid a plan for something new, quite out of the beaten track'.

Only citizens from Great Britain and Ireland who have published a novel with a British publisher in the corresponding year may apply . Re-publications, anthologies or short story volumes are excluded. The shortlist will be announced at the beginning of October, the winner in mid-November. The award ceremony also takes place in November. The usually four-member jury consists of two novelists (including the previous year's winner), a literary critic from the New Statesman and a professor from Goldsmiths College.

In the first two years, three of the works on the shortlist were also on the Man Booker Prize .

Prize winners and shortlists

2013

winner

• Eimear McBride : A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

Shortlist

• Jim Crace : Harvest
• Lars Iyer : Exodus
• David Peace : Red or Dead
• Ali Smith : Artful
• Philip Terry : tapestry

2014

winner

• Ali Smith : How to Be Both

Shortlist

The shortlist was announced on October 1, 2014.

• Rachel Cusk : Outline
• Will Eaves : The Absent Therapist
• Howard Jacobson : J: A Novel
• Paul Kingsnorth : The Wake
• Zia Haider Rahman : In the Light of What We Know

2015

winner

• Kevin Barry : Beatlebone

Shortlist

The shortlist was announced on October 1st, 2015.

• Richard Beard : Acts of the Assassins
• Magnus Mills : The Field of the Cloth of Gold
• Tom McCarthy : Satin Island
• Max Porter : Grief is the Thing with Feathers
• Adam Thirlwell : Lurid & Cute

2016

winner

• Mike McCormack : Solar Bones

Shortlist

• Rachel Cusk , Transit
• Eimear McBride , The Lesser Bohemians
• Anakana Schofield , Martin John
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika , Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
• Deborah Levy , Hot Milk

2017

winner

• Nicola Barker , H (a) ppy

Shortlist

• Sara Baume , A Line Made by Walking
• Kevin Davey , Playing Possum
• Jon McGregor , Reservoir 13
• Gwendoline Riley , First Love
• Will Self , Phone

2018

winner

• Robin Robertson , The Long Take

Shortlist

• Rachel Cusk , kudos
• Will Eaves , Murmur
• Guy Gunaratne , In Our Mad and Furious City
• Gabriel Josipovici , The Cemetery in Barnes
• Olivia Laing , Crudo

Web links

• Goldsmiths Prize website

supporting documents

1. ↑ Goldsmiths launches £ 10,000 literary prize , thebookseller.com, January 23, 2013, accessed August 17, 2015
2. ↑ Rules and deadlines
3. ↑ alternative description of the literature prize at Foyles
4. ↑ Debut novelist Eimear McBride wins £ 10,000 prize , London Evening Standard, November 13, 2013, accessed August 17, 2015
5. ^ Ali Smith wins Goldsmiths Prize for How to be Both , BBC November 13, 2014, accessed August 17, 2015
6. ↑ The shortlist for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced , New Statesman October 1, 2014, accessed August 17, 2015
7. ^ Goldsmiths Prize shortlist 2015 , Goldsmiths, accessed October 22, 2015