Event overview
The six writers shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 reading from and discussing their novels
Erica Wagner will introduce readings from Paul Griffiths, Xiaolu Guo, M. John Harrison, DBC Pierre, Monique Roffey and Anakana Schofield
From DBC Pierre’s smarting satire of smartphone culture to Paul Griffith’s elegant imagining of Beethoven in Boston, the six books shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020 are concerned with characters in extremis and loss of moorings.
While Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch blends Moby Dick with Metamorphosis in a polyphonic reflection on racial and sexual identity, M John Harrison’s The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again returns us to The Water Babies in a fishy tale of hallucinogenic beauty and strangeness. Xiaolu Guo’s A Lover’s Discourse places Roland Barthes in Brexit Britain in a delicate and witty love story between East and West, and Anakana Schofield’s Bina, a black comedy about euthanasia, is told as a series of warnings scribbled on the backs of envelopes by a woman who has had enough – a feeling many of us can share in these fragile and fractured times.
www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2020 | 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
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