The 2017 Goldsmiths Prize, worth £10,000, has been won by Nicola Barker for her novel H(a)ppy. The book is Barker’s eleventh novel. The purpose of the prize, established by Goldsmiths, University of London in 2013, is to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the University with ‘a book that is deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best.’ Naomi Wood, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, commented, ‘Nicola Barker’s H(a)ppy is a structural marvel to hold in the mind and in the hands. Line by line, colour by colour, this dystopic utopia is an ingenious closed loop of mass surveillance, technology, and personality-modifying psychopharmaceuticals. H(a)ppy is a fabulous demonstration of what the Goldsmiths Prize champions: innovation of form that only ever enriches the story. In Barker’s 3D-sculpture of a novel, H(a)ppy makes the case for the novel as a physical form and an object of art.’
• The World Fantasy Awards, for works published in 2016, were announced as part of the World Fantasy Convention, in San Antonio, Texas, in November. Winner of the award for Best Novel was The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Londoner Claire North. The book is the 31-year-old author’s eighteenth novel – Claire was first published under her own name, Catherine Webb, aged sixteen, and has also penned books as Kate Griffin. The other winners were: Long Fiction, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson; Short Fiction, Das Steingeschöpf, GV Anderson (Strange Horizons); Anthology, Dreaming in the Dark, ed Jack Dann; Collection, A Natural History of Hell, Jeffrey Ford; Special Award, Michael Levy & Farah Mendlesohn, Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction.
• Dating back to 1950, the National Book Awards are among America’s most prestigious literary awards. Having previously won in 2011 with her novel Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward becomes the first woman ever to win the award twice, this time for Sing, Unburied, Sing. The other winners were; Non-fiction, Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia; Poetry, Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965- 2016; Young People’s Literature, Robin Benway, Far from the Tree.
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