Event overview
The six writers shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2019 reading from and discussing their novels
Erica Wagner will introduce readings from Amy Arnold, Lucy Ellmann, Mark Haddon, Deborah Levy, Vesna Main, & Isabel Waidner
'The Goldsmiths Prize is now in its seventh year—lucky number seven, with such a terrific shortlist. From the vast eidetic capaciousness of Lucy Ellman's Ducks, Newburyport to the slender and hectic compression of Isabel Waidner’s We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff, this year’s selection of six books not only offers a reminder that the novel remains a flexible and innovative form, but reflects our 21st-century political and cultural concerns. Deborah Levy’s The Man Who Saw Everything asks what it means to see politics and culture, venturing from East Berlin just before the fall of the Wall to post-Brexit Britain; Mark Haddon’s The Porpoise begins like a thriller but veers into the mythic echoes that underpin all our lives. Amy Arnold’s Slip of a Fish deconstructs an English summer through the haunted consciousness of its protagonist and Vesna Main's Good Day? uses dialogue alone to ask that deceptively simple question: who gets to tell the story? This list is a fascinating snapshot of the best British and Irish fiction around. ' (Dr Erica Wagner, Chair of Judges)
www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Oct 2019 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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