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"Set over a few hours in a single day, and told in the first-person voice of a middle-aged engineer, Mike McCormack's Solar Bones transcends these seeming limits magnificently," Chair of Judges Professor Blake Morrison said.
McCormack became the third Irish writer to claim the Goldsmiths Prize since its inception in 2013 and said the win served as "payback" for the publishers and agent who supported him throughout his career.
"It's about time the prize-giving community honoured experimental works and time that mainstream publishers started honouring their readership by saying: 'Here are experimental books,'" McCormack said.
"I feel terrific, I'm absolutely thrilled to win the Goldsmiths Prize." Here's Mike McCormack just after winning the #GoldsmithsPrize2016. pic.twitter.com/3g5SjkgTnR
— Goldsmiths (@GoldsmithsUoL) November 9, 2016