Megan Nolan, Mark Haddon, Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville on judging the Goldsmiths Prize
The judging panel for the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize has been announced. Now in its 13th year, the £10,000 prize rewards fiction that breaks the mould and extends the possibility of the novel. This year’s judges include Irish writer Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation and Ordinary Human Failings .
“The Goldsmiths Prize has brought to attention books that weren’t getting attention and coverage in a mainstream critical forum, and that has genuinely shifted the literary landscape in the last twelve years.” To mark the launch, the judging panel took part in a Q&A, sharing insights on the importance of mould-breaking fiction, the significance of book prizes in a highly technologised age, how prizes can retain their significance when recommendations come from many directions, and whether they’ve ever judged a book by its cover.
“There was a huge public response to the first winner, Eimear McBride’s book which was published by Galley Beggar, and it turned out that there is this massive appetite for work that is doing something different and new.”“I’d simply point at Samantha Harvey’s Orbital.
“One thing previous judging experiences have made me realise is, the first line is very important. The first page is very important. When you’re doing so much reading and an author doesn’t grab your attention on the first page, obviously, you carry on reading, but you know, it’s an uphill challenge from there.”“Novels are what interest me, as a reader and as a writer. There’s this quotation I always use in my teaching from Virginia Woolf.
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