The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award founded in 2013. It is for fiction that "opens up new possibilities for the novel form". It is sponsored by Goldsmiths, University of London in association with the New Statesman and has a £10,000 remuneration. The award is limited to UK and Irish authors and books must be published by a UK-based publisher.
Winners and shortlists
Blue Ribbon () = winner
The shortlist for the 2013 award was announced on 1 October 2013.
Jim Crace, Harvest (Picador)
Lars Iyer, Exodus (Melville House)
Eimear McBride, A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (Galley Beggar Press)
David Peace, Red or Dead (Faber and Faber)
Ali Smith, Artful (Penguin Books)
Philip Terry, tapestry(Reality Street)
The shortlist for the 2014 award was announced on 1 October 2014. The winner was announced 13 November 2014.
Rachel Cusk, Outline (Vintage)
Will Eaves, The Absent Therapist (CBeditions)
Howard Jacobson, J. (Jonathan Cape)
Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake (Unbound Publishing)
Zia Haider Rahman, In the Light of What We Know (Picador)
Ali Smith, How to Be Both (Penguin)
The shortlist for the 2015 award was announced on 1 October 2015. The winner was announced on 11 November 2015.
Kevin Barry, Beatlebone (Canongate)
Richard Beard, Acts of the Assassins (Vintage)
Magnus Mills, The Field of the Cloth of Gold (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (Jonathan Cape)
Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Faber and Faber)
Adam Thirlwell, Lurid & Cute (Jonathan Cape)
The shortlist for the 2016 award was announced on 28 September 2016. The winner was announced on 9 November 2016.
Rachel Cusk, Transit (Jonathan Cape)
Eimear McBride, The Lesser Bohemians (Faber and Faber)
Anakana Schofield, Martin John (&Other Stories)
Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun (Cassava Republic Press)
Mike McCormack, Solar Bones (Tramp Press)
Deborah Levy, Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton)
