Event overview
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre Presents the winners of the Goldsmiths Prize 2022 in conversation with Dr Tim Parnell, chair of judges
The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre, in association with the New Statesman presents Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams, winners of The Goldsmiths Prize 2022, in conversation with Tim Parnell.
'By turns, funny, moving, and angry, Diego Garcia is as compelling to read as it is intricately wrought. For Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams collaboration is both method and politics. Against the dogmatism of the single-voiced fiction that informed the British government’s expulsion of the Chagossian people from their homeland, they respond not only with rigorous critique, but also with an understanding of the relationship between voice and power which shapes the very form of Diego Garcia. A marvellous book which extends the scope of the novel form.' Dr Tim Parnell
'An extraordinary achievement, this single novel composed by two writers is both a paean to connectivity and a profound study of the tragedy of human disconnect. At its core is an excoriation of a set of specific colonial foulnesses and injustices: the forced depopulation of the Chagos Islands and their expedient use by the UK and the US as a military base and bargaining chip. At its heart is an experiment with form that asks what fiction is, what art is for, and how, against the odds, to make visible, questionable and communal the structures, personal and political, of contemporary society, philosophy, lived history.' Ali Smith
Natasha Soobramanien, British-Mauritian, and Luke Williams, Scottish, are the authors of Genie and Paul and The Echo Chamber, respectively. They used to live in Edinburgh but Natasha now lives in Brussels and Luke in Cove.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 8 Jun 2023 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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