The Goldsmiths Prize
Fiction at its most novel
Prize intro
The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the College and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form. The annual prize of £10,000 is awarded to a book that is deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best.
2026 Winner: The Rouse by China Miéville
Francis Spufford, Chair of Judges and Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London:
“Excellent though all the books on the shortlist are, it seemed only right to give this year's Goldsmiths Prize to the one that, in terms of ambition, bold use of history, linguistic experiment and sheer scale, broke most explosively with expectation.”
