China Miéville has won the 2026 Goldsmiths Prize.

China Miéville has won the 2026 Goldsmiths Prize.

China Miéville has won this year’s Goldsmiths Prize for his novel The Rouse. The Goldsmiths Prize, launched in 2013 “to reward fiction that breaks the mold or extends the possibilities of the novel form,” has been previously awarded to Ali Smith, Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride, and Rachel Cusk, among others. It comes with a £10,000 purse and was judged this year by Kate Briggs, Hari Kunzru, David Sexton, and Francis Spufford (jury chair). “Excellen…

‘He was destined for this award’: China Miéville wins Goldsmiths prize for 1,200-page novel

The Rouse, which took its author two decades to complete, was praised by judges as ‘exuberant, overflowing’ China Miéville has won the £10,000 Goldsmiths prize for The Rouse, a 1,264-page epic that is part paranormal thriller, part historical saga moving through decades of British imperial and cold war history. The win, announced at a ceremony…