2019
Winner:
Guy Gunaratne -
In Our Mad and Furious City
(Tinder Press)
Guy Gunaratne grew up in North West London. His first novel, In Our Mad and Furious City, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.
Guy Gunaratne is one of the judges for the Goldsmiths Prize 2019. He lives between the UK and Sweden and has worked as a documentary filmmaker in human rights journalism.
Short list
-
Roma Agrawal, Built: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures (Bloomsbury)
-
Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire (Two Roads)
-
Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins)
-
Aminatta Forna, Happiness (Bloomsbury)
-
Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City (Tinder)
-
Onjali Q. Rauf, The Boy At The Back of The Class (Hachette Childrens)
Long list
-
Roma Agrawal, Built : The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures (Bloomsbury)
-
Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire (Two Roads)
-
Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins)
-
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff (ed.), Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children (Headline/Hachette)
-
Yrsa Daley-Ward, The Terrible (Penguin)
-
Aminatta Forna, Happiness (Bloomsbury)
-
Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City (Tinder)
-
Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (Vintage)
-
Damian Le Bas, Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain (Chatto&Windus)
-
Roy McFarlane, The Healing Next Time (Nine Arches)
-
Onjali Q. Rauf, The Boy At The Back of The Class (Hachette Childrens)
-
Sharlene Teo, Ponti (Picador)
