Rachel Cusk wins the Goldsmiths Prize 2024
The Goldsmiths prize has announced Rachel Cusk as the 2024 winner for her novel Parade. The prize was created by Goldsmiths College at the University of London 12 years ago, to celebrate creative daring and novels that are experimental and innovative in form and themes. It is awarded annually, with a prize of £10,000 for the winner.
🏆 Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2024
Parade by Rachel Cusk
A path-breaking novel of art, womanhood and violence, from the author of the Outline trilogy.
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked.
In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect.
Dr Abigail Shin, the Chair of Judges said:
“Examining the life of the artist and the composition of the self, Rachel Cusk’s 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.”
The 2024 Shortlist
Discover the other innovative novels included in the 2024 shortlist for the Goldsmith Prize.
- Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking byHan Smith
- Choice by Neel Mukherjee
- All My Precious Madness by Mark Bowles
- Tell by Jonathan Buckley
- Spent Light by Lara Pawson
