Event overview
The six writers shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023 reading from and discussing their novels
With readings from Amy Arnold, Kate Briggs, H. Gareth Gavin, Richard Milward, Benjamin Myers & Adam Thirlwell
'What struck us was the sheer ambition and invention on display in these six wildly different books. From a wickedly funny and subversive journey through 1960’s counterculture to a multi-voiced millenia straddling account of a saint and the cathedral built to honour him; from a story of revolutionary France that subverts all the rules of historical fiction to engage explicitly with our contemporary moment to a searing and beautiful account of marriage and loss in the fog and drama of the Lake District; from a mind-bending queer coming of age novel set in a limbo-like world of lost dreams and disappointments to work that uses a minute focus on a day in the life of a woman and her baby to perform a profound meditation on the idea of the novel itself.
This is a shortlist that shows the novel – that most slippery and vital of forms – continuing to morph and reinvent itself in ways that surprise and delight us.'- Dr Tom Lee, Chair of Judges
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2023 | 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
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