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The Goldsmiths Prize
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2022 Goldsmiths Prize speculation
Paul wrote: "If Treacle Walker was 30 Sept 2021 then it isn’t eligible for this year’s Booker either - should have been last year. Unless the prize overlooked it being ineligible by one day (this year is from..."
A lot of books were held back, had their pub dates changed late last year, maybe it was one of those?
Yes I think it was debated s month to end October. So last year’s Goldsmith and this year’s Booker.
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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isabel...
Thanks! Have booked, hoping I can make itAny predictions from anyone - the Listopia seems to be mostly my suggestions
If they stick to the rules I can't as it was eligible last year. Although only by a few days (28 October vs 31 October cut off)
Still hoping for Maps
Yes that one surely should be there. It's on the list though.I'm after the usual books you've read but forgot to mention.
Will let you know in October
It would be quite funny if (as is almost a Goldsmith tradition) the shortlist includes books which made the Booker longlist but not shortlist given this year it will be announced with a Booker judge in the audience.
It seems like there's so much variation from year to year about what's considered innovative that it's hard to predict.
I have booked also. Will any other Mookse members be able to attend (it’s free of charge)
The Goldsmiths was where several of us met in person for the first time I recall.
Yes I recall meeting you there I think
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It looks like the 5th is a rail and underground strike day so suspect attendance will be badly impacted.
And me I suspect - even the trains and tubes that run on strike days very unreliable - and it’s not an easy venue to get to at best of times Worth keeping an eye out though as I think it’s a partial strike
Blast, I wanted to go but Goldsmiths is right across London for me, too hard on a strike day.
Oh dear - that isn't great. Wonder if they'll move it.
If only we knew someone who was friends with last year’s winner being interviewed who could ask her …. Over to you Paul
It isn't a tube strike - only a train strike. Whatever those are - apparently odd things that don't go underground, which service the sticks.Although unfortunately the Goldsmiths is outside of London, which likely explains it's bias as a prize towards non-London voices.
I think Stuart may be a UK citizen still so in that case yes.
I would think zero chance of it being submitted though
I would think the publishers would not be that interested in a relatively small prize like the Goldsmiths for a book this big (suspect they were hoping for Booker) and I also don’t see how it breaks the mould or extends the possibility of the novel form. But I may well be 100 percent wrong.
What made you think it might be entered and would fit the prize?
I'm only hoping as I already have a copy (easy to find)... also thinking it might appeal to Smith.
Ok so sounds as if event is more likely to move online than to be rescheduled.
That would be great although I had been looking forward to an in person.
I’d prefer rescheduled as it’s usually informal enough for you to be able to chat with people. But I guess they can’t find another date to do it at short notice.
Any news on the online event?
Shortlist coming today? This is quite a week for book prizes.
My one prediction is that I won’t achieve this year what I did last year of 3/6 of the shortlist in the first post on the thread, and one year even 4/6.Not least as of my two key picks one of the authors subsequently became a judge, and another, my predicted winner, hasn’t been published (and not clear it ever will be).
Paul Stanbridge’s novel and Poguemahome could be contenders though.
Time to catch the train to the venue
I've obviously been corrupted by the group, now oddly excited to find out what's on the shortlist!
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I am here but signal isn’t great and I need to nurse the battery for my Uber homeThe Goldsmiths judges has just done a bit of Republic of Consciousness trash talking - “they keep shortlisting Isabel but never giving them the prize”
Listening to M John Harrison talk about what he likes in a novel, I suspect he is #teamtreacle. Perhaps Seven Moons as well. Very much an enemy of causality and orientating the reader.
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Me too. I had a place booked too...
I'm in the Glasgow area so just not possible
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I’m delighted that she’s a judge for the Goldsmiths this year.