Barry wins 2015 Goldsmiths Prize

In the UK, Kevin Barry’s Beatlebone (Canongate) has won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize. Chosen from a shortlist of six titles, Barry’s fictionalised portrait of The Beatles’ John Lennon ‘at a time of creative strife’ was praised by the chair of judges Josh Cohen for ‘intricately weaving and blurring fiction and life’ and for taking the reader to ‘the very edge of the novel form, where it meets its notorious doppelgänger, autobiography’. ‘Beatlebone embodies beautifully this prize’s spirit of creative risk,’ said Cohen. The £10,000 (A$21,545) annual award recognises ‘fiction that breaks the mould or opens up new possibilities for the novel form’, and was launched in 2013 by Goldsmiths, University of London and the New Statesman. For more information about the prize, visit the Goldsmiths website here.

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