Isabel Waidner, winner of The Goldsmiths Prize 2021

The Goldsmiths Writers' Centre in association with the New Statesman presents Isabel Waidner, winner of The Goldsmiths Prize 2021, in conversation with M. John Harrison.

The evening will conclude with the announcement of the Goldsmiths Prize 2022 shortlist.

'Isabel Waidner collides the real and the mythic, the beautiful and the grotesque, to mind-bending effect. Time-travel constrained by the limitations of Google Maps and trials out of Hieronymus Bosch never out-dazzle the human heart in this novel of friendship, art, injustice and all that can be imagined and unimagined. From the first page, matadors in Camden seem entirely plausible.' Kamila Shamsie

'Effortlessly referential, fluid and funny, endlessly inventive, furious and resistant, Sterling Karat Gold doubles down on Isabel Waidner’s disruptive ongoing analysis of UK psychic architecture.' M. John Harrison

Isabel Waidner is the author of three novels: 'Sterling Karat Gold' (2021), 'We Are Made of Diamond Stuff' (2019) and 'Gaudy Bauble' (2017). They were shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize (twice), and won the Internationale Literaturpreis. They are a co-founder of the event series Queers Read This at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and the programmer and presenter of This Isn’t a Dream, a fortnightly literary talk show, also hosted by the ICA via Instagram live. Waidner is an academic at Queen Mary University of London.

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