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Mike McCormack: "Tramp Press were so lucid, clear, courageous and enthusiastic about the book."

Author Mike McCormack castigates UK literary culture

Mike McCormack, who won the Novel of the Year prize at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards on Wednesday night for his groundbreaking book Solar Bones, has castigated Britain as `having one of the most conservative literary cultures in the world.'

Culture • 17 Nov 16

Mike McCormack wins Goldsmiths Prize for Solar Bones

Mayo novelist Mike McCormack has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction for his third novel Solar Bones, triumphing over a shortlist that also included Irish writer Eimear McBride and Irish-Canadian writer Anakana Schofield.

Culture • 10 Nov 16

McBride in running for her second Goldsmiths Prize

Irish author Eimear McBride is in the running for her second Goldsmiths Prize for The Lesser Bohemians after she won the £10,000 literary award for her debut novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, in 2013.

Books • 07 Nov 16

Born in Canada in 1967 and living in England since 1974, Rachel Cusk is perhaps the most exciting fiction writer at work in the UK at present.

Reviewed: Rachel Cusk - Transit

In Transit, Goldsmiths Prize nominee Rachel Cusk follows Outline with another tale of exquisite dysfunction and surreal ordinariness, as a mother tries to organise her life in expensive London.

Culture • 10 Oct 16

McBride, Schofield and McCormack - Winner to be announced on November 9

Irish authors short-listed for Goldsmiths Prize

The Irish authors Eimear McBride and Mike McCormack and the Irish-Canadian writer Anakana Schofield have been short-listed for the Goldsmiths Prize for fiction. The prize, which awards "boldly original fiction", is worth £10,000 sterling.

Culture • 12 Oct 16

Goldsmiths Prize

Author Mike McCormack castigates UK literary culture

Mike McCormack wins Goldsmiths Prize for Solar Bones

McBride in running for her second Goldsmiths Prize

Reviewed: Rachel Cusk - Transit

Irish authors short-listed for Goldsmiths Prize

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