Award for innovative fiction goes to Beatlebone by Kevin Barry, praised by judges for its ‘spirit of creative risk’
A novel about John Lennon setting out to take a course of primal scream therapy on an Irish island has won Kevin Barry the Goldsmiths prize for innovative fiction, with judges praising its “intricately weaving and blurring fiction and life”.
The Irish novelist, who has won the €100,000 (£70,000) Impac prize and the Sunday Times EFG short story prize in the past, was named winner of the £10,000 Goldsmiths prize on Wednesday evening for his novel Beatlebone. Intended to recognise “writing at its most novel”, and to “reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form”, the inaugural Goldsmiths award went to Eimear McBride’s stream-of-consciousness A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, while Ali Smith won the prize last year for her dual narrative How to Be Both.
Beatlebone is set in 1978, and follows the 37-year-old Lennon as he travels to the west coast of Ireland, planning to visit the island he owns and undergo primal scream therapy.
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The Irish novelist, who has won the €100,000 (£70,000) Impac prize and the Sunday Times EFG short story prize in the past, was named winner of the £10,000 Goldsmiths prize on Wednesday evening for his novel Beatlebone. Intended to recognise “writing at its most novel”, and to “reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form”, the inaugural Goldsmiths award went to Eimear McBride’s stream-of-consciousness A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, while Ali Smith won the prize last year for her dual narrative How to Be Both.
Beatlebone is set in 1978, and follows the 37-year-old Lennon as he travels to the west coast of Ireland, planning to visit the island he owns and undergo primal scream therapy.
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