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Goldsmiths Prize 2015

The 2015 Goldsmiths Prize went to Beatlebone by Kevin Barry. 6 books made the shortlist.

Winner

  1. Beatlebone by Kevin Barrysource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

  1. Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beardsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Portersource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwellsource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Satin Island by Tom McCarthysource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Magnus Millssource (opens in a new tab)

About the Goldsmiths Prize

Every winning and shortlisted book for the Goldsmiths Prize, 2013-2025, listed once at its highest level. Year is the prize year; each prize is announced in November of that year. The prize publishes a shortlist of six and no longlist. Category is Fiction. All years come from the official gold.ac.uk prize pages (prize2013-prize2022 and archive/prize-2023 to prize-2025). The 2015 page does not name the winner, so Beatlebone is sourced to the official winner news story. Titles keep the prize's own styling, such as How to be both and H(A)PPY. Colwill Brown is spelled as in the official 2025 shortlist story; the archive page has Colwell.

Organization: Goldsmiths, University of London, with the New Statesman. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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