Cusk wins Goldsmiths Prize for ‘Parade’

In the UK, Rachel Cusk has won the £10,000 (A$19,605) Goldsmiths Prize for Parade (Faber), a novel that ‘offers an enigmatic and thought-provoking meditation on art, gender and the complexities of selfhood’, according to the prize organisers.

Chosen for the prize from a shortlist of six, Parade is the fourth of Cusk’s novels to be nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize; the author was previously shortlisted for Outline, Transit and Kudos, the three novels in her Outline trilogy.

Said chair of judges Abigail Shinn of Parade: ‘Examining the life of the artist and the composition of the self … Parade exposes the power and limitations of our alternate selves. Probing the limits of the novel form and pushing back against convention, this is a work that resets our understanding of what the long form makes possible.’

Established in 2013 by Goldsmiths, University of London, the prize rewards fiction that ‘breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form’ and ‘embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best’.

Last year, Benjamin Myers won the Goldsmiths Prize for Cuddy (Bloomsbury).

More information is available at the Goldsmiths Prize website.

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