![]() ![]() ![]() Introducing a reading earlier this month, Harrison said it is “a story of lovers so self-involved, they not only fail to make a relationship but also fail to notice a mysterious political takeover going on around them. The New Statesman is delighted to support the prize.” John Harrison, the Goldsmiths continues to play a vital role in reinvigorating the novel form. John Harrison has produced a literary masterpiece that will continue to be read in 100 years time, if the planet survives that long.”ĭeputy Editor of the New Statesman, Tom Gatti, said: “In celebrating the work of border-crossing writers such as M. Always to move on."Ĭhair of Judges, Frances Wilson, said: “M. The whole point of a prize like this, the whole point of innovative writing is to break limits, is to break boundaries, is to break rules, to break categories, and to move on. "I think there are so many different ways to be innovative, and in fact the attempt to define them would be a limitation in itself. ![]() ![]() The beliefs we had then are exactly those that lie behind the prize that I have just won 50 years later, which is quite astonishing to me. Speaking after the win, he said: "It’s quite astonishing to have started a career 50-odd years ago in a magazine that had moved from being a science fiction magazine, in a very short time across the early sixties, into being a place where experimental writing was brought to the fore. Harrison was announced as the winner of the £10,000 prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction at an online ceremony on Wednesday 11 November. ![]()
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