Why Isabel Waidner won the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize
In Sterling Karat Gold the author writes with incandescent rage and surreal humour.
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Goldsmiths Prize
The Goldsmiths Prize for fiction is a literary award established in 2013 in association with the New Statesman. The annual prize of £10,000 is awarded for “fiction at its most novel”. The winner for the 2025 prize will be announced in November.
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Isabel Waidner wins the 2021 Goldsmiths Prize with Sterling Karat Gold
Described as “Kafka’s The Trial written for the era of gaslighting”, Waidner’s third novel has won the £10,000 prize for…
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Isabel Waidner: “The British novel reproduces white middle-class values and aesthetics”
The author on their Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted book Sterling Karat Gold, humour, and why the novel has to change.
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