The Goldsmiths Prize is a new literary prize, £10,000 to be awarded to, as they explain: "a book that is deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best".
They've now announced the first winner of the prize, and it is A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, by Eimear McBride.
This came out from Galley Beggar Press (after, apparently, many rejections elsewhere) -- but it already received good notices even before this, with, for exmaple, David Collard praising: "McBride's virtuosic phrase-making" and suggesting: "Writing of this quality is rare and deserves a wide readership" in the TLS.
Text have picked this up in Australia, and presumably someone will in the US, too; for now see the publicity pages from Galley Beggar Press or Text, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
They've now announced the first winner of the prize, and it is A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, by Eimear McBride.
This came out from Galley Beggar Press (after, apparently, many rejections elsewhere) -- but it already received good notices even before this, with, for exmaple, David Collard praising: "McBride's virtuosic phrase-making" and suggesting: "Writing of this quality is rare and deserves a wide readership" in the TLS.
Text have picked this up in Australia, and presumably someone will in the US, too; for now see the publicity pages from Galley Beggar Press or Text, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.