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Goldsmiths Prize
The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award, founded in 2013 by Goldsmiths, University of London, in association with the ''New Statesman.'' It is awarded annually to a piece of fiction that "breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form." It is limited to citizens and residents of the United Kingdom and Ireland, and to novels published by presses based in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The winner receives £10,000. Tim Parnell of the Goldsmiths English department conceived and runs the prize, inspired by his research into Laurence Sterne and other eighteenth-century writers, like Denis Diderot, who experimented with the novel form. The prize "casts its net wider than most other prizes" and intends to celebrate "creative daring," but resists the phrase "experimental fiction," because it implies "an eccentric deviation from the novel’s natural concerns, structures and idioms." To date, Rachel Cusk Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldsmiths, University Of London
Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London. It was renamed Goldsmiths' College after being acquired by the University of London in 1904 and specialises in the arts, design, humanities and social sciences. The main building on campus, known as the Richard Hoggart Building, was originally opened in 1792 and is the site of the former Royal Naval School. According to Quacquarelli Symonds (2021), Goldsmiths ranks 12th in Communication and Media Studies, 15th in Art & Design and is ranked in the top 50 in the areas of Anthropology, Sociology and the Performing Arts. In 2020, the university enrolled over 10,000 students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. 37% of students come from outside the United Kingdom and 52% of all undergradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi FRSL (born 10 December 1984) is a British novelist and writer of short stories. Life Oyeyemi was born in Nigeria and was raised in Lewisham, South London from when she was four. Oyeyemi wrote her first novel, '' The Icarus Girl'', while studying for her A-levels at Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School. She attended Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Since 2014 her home has been in Prague. Career While she was in college, Oyeyemi's plays ''Juniper's Whitening'' and ''Victimese'' were performed by fellow students and later published by Methuen in 2014. In 2007, Bloomsbury published Oyeyemi's second novel, '' The Opposite House'', which is inspired by Cuban mythology. Her third novel, '' White Is for Witching'', was published by Picador in May 2009. It was a 2009 Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a 2010 Somerset Maugham Award. In 2009, Oyeyemi was recognized as one of the women on Venus Zine's "25 under 25" list. Her fourth novel, '' Mr Fox'', was published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Directions Publishing
New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin and incorporated in 1964. Its offices are located at 80 Eighth Avenue in New York City. History New Directions was born in 1936 of Ezra Pound's advice to the young James Laughlin, then a Harvard University sophomore, to "do something useful" after finishing his studies at Harvard. The first projects to come out of New Directions were anthologies of new writing, each titled ''New Directions in Poetry and Prose'' (until 1966's ''NDPP 19''). Early writers incorporated in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, James Agee, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New Directions later broadened their focus to include writing of all genres, representing not only American writing, but also a considerable amount of literature in translation from modernist authors around the world. New Directions also published the ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Shock
''A Shock'' is a 2021 fiction novel written by Irish novelist Keith Ridgway. It was published by Picador in the United Kingdom, and by New Directions Publishing in the United States. It was shortlisted for the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize (2021). Plot The book follows a group of loosely connected characters appearing, disappearing, and reappearing around contemporary London. The nine chapters are "The Party", "The Camera", The Sweat", "The Joke", "The Story", "The Flat", "The Pigeon", "The Meeting" and "The Song". It has a number of characters that experience different social issues on different levels; sexuality, racism, drugs, class struggle, troubles finding accommodation in a progressively changing city. Reception Anthony Cummins in ''The Guardian'' wrote: "a plot-driven panorama along the lines of John Lanchester's ''Capital Capital may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** List of national capital cities * Capital letter, an up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Ridgway
Keith Ridgway (born 2 October 1965) is an Irish novelist. An author, he has been described as "a worthy inheritor" of "the modernist tradition in Irish fiction." Writings ''Horses'', Ridgway's first published work of fiction, appeared in ''Faber First Fictions Volume 13'' in 1997. In 1998 ''The Long Falling'' was published by Faber & Faber, London. It was adapted into a film by French director Martin Provost in 2011: ''Où va la nuit''. A collection of short fiction, ''Standard Time,'' appeared in 2000, followed by Ridgway's third novel, ''The Parts,'' in 2003. Both were published by Faber & Faber. In 2006 ''Animals'' was published by 4th Estate, London. A short story, "Goo Book," was published in the April 11, 2011, issue oThe New Yorkermagazine. ''Hawthorn & Child,'' was published by New Directions on 2013. His first novel in eight years, ''A Shock'', was published by Picador in June 2021. Ridgway's novels have been translated into several languages and have been published in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton (''Hamish'' is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas eaning James ''James'' the English form – which was also his given name, and ''Jamie'' the diminutive form). Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as ''Hamish Hamilton''. The Hamish Hamilton imprint is now part of the Penguin Random House group. History and current publishing Hamish Hamilton Limited originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the United Kingdom, including Nigel Balchin (including pseudonym: Mark Spade), Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, J.D. Salinger, E. B. White and Truman Capote. In 1939 Hamish Hamilton Law and Hamish Hamilton Medical were started but closed during the war. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district of Bloomsbury and went on to publish many promising British and American authors, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Brown (author)
Natasha Brown is an anchor and reporter at KYW in Philadelphia. She reports for CBS 3 ''Eyewitness News'' on weeknights and co-anchors ''Eyewitness News'' at 4pm on weekdays alongside anchor Siafa Lewis, who joined her in November 2021 after departing Chicago station WMAQ-TV. She joined the station in December 2002 as morning anchor and reporter. She is also host of ''Speak Up'', a public affairs program on WPSG. She graduated from James Madison University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. Prior to joining KYW, she worked as a reporter at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She previously worked as weekend anchor and reporter at WWBT-TV in Richmond, Virginia. Brown began her career as a reporter at WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Brown has received three Emmy awards for her excellence in reporting, and was inducted in 2016 to the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia is a state-chartered, federally recogni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960. Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in 1921. They established a reputation for high quality design and production and a fine list of English-language authors, fostered by the firm's editor and reader Edward Garnett. Cape's list of writers ranged from poets including Robert Frost and C. Day Lewis, to children's authors such as Hugh Lofting and Arthur Ransome, to James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, to heavyweight fiction by James Joyce and T. E. Lawrence. After Cape's death, the firm later merged successively with three other London publishing houses. In 1987 it was taken over by Random House. Its name continues as one of Random House's British imprints. Cape – biography Early years Herbert Jonathan Cape was born in London on 15 November 1879, the youngest of the seven children of Jonathan Cape, a clerk from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Checkout 19
''Checkout 19'' is the debut novel of the British writer Claire-Louise Bennett. It was selected for ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...''s "10 Best Books of 2022" list. References 2021 British novels 2021 debut novels Jonathan Cape books {{2020s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire-Louise Bennett
Claire-Louise Bennett is a British writer, living in Galway in Ireland. She has written ''Pond'' (2015), which was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize; and ''Checkout 19'' (2021), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Biography Bennett grew up in a working-class family in Wiltshire. She studied literature and drama at the University of Roehampton in London. She emigrated from the UK to Galway in Ireland around the turn of the millennium. Publications *''Pond''. Hardback; Stinging Fly, 2015; . Paperback; Fitzcarraldo, 2015; . *''Checkout 19''. Jonathan Cape, 2021. . * ''Fish out of water'' Awards *2013: Winner, ''The White Review'' Short Story Prize for "The Lady of the House" *2016: Shortlisted, Dylan Thomas Prize for ''Pond'' *2021: Shortlisted, Goldsmiths Prize The Goldsmiths Prize is a British literary award, founded in 2013 by Goldsmiths, University of London, in association with the ''New Statesman.'' It is awarded annually to a piece of fiction that "break ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Waidner
Isabel Waidner (born 1974) is a German-British writer, musician, and cultural theorist based in London. They have written three novels, ''Gaudy Bauble'' (2017, Dostoyevsky Wannabe), ''We are Made of Diamond Stuff'' (2019, Dostoyevsky Wannabe), and ''Sterling Karat Gold'' (2021, Peninsula Press). ''We are Made of Diamond Stuff'', set in the Isle of Wight where Waidner's partner is from, was nominated for the 2019 Goldsmiths Prize, and ''Sterling Karat Gold'' won the 2021 Goldsmith Prize. They are also the editor of the anthology ''Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature'' (2018, Dostoyevsky Wannabe) and have written for numerous publications including Granta, Frieze, the Cambridge Literary Review, and AQNB. Along with artist Richard Porter, Waidner is the co-founder of the Queers Read This event series hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the host of the ICA's literary talk series, This Isn't a Dream, hosted fortnightly via Instagram Live. Biogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
