Mike McCormack won Goldsmiths Prize for Solar Bones

Mike McCormack won Goldsmiths Prize for Solar Bones.Solar Bones author Mike McCormack had won the Goldsmiths Prize. He stated that it was “payback” for his publishers Tramp Press and his agent who had backed him during his “long and difficult adventure” as a writer. He visited more publishers to take risks with experimental authors. Speaking after collecting his £10,000 cheque at an event held at the London

bookstore, Foyles on Charing Cross Road.Mike McCormack won Goldsmiths Prize for Solar Bones

iii. McCormack is the third Irish writer to win since the prize began in 2013.Politics, family, art, marriage, health, civic duty and the environment are just a few of the themes it touches on, in a prose that’s lyrical yet strongly rooted.

iv.Mike McCormack was born on 1965. He is an Irish novelist and short story writer. He has published two collections of short stories, Getting It In the Head and Forensic Songs and three novels – Crowe’s Requiem, Notes from a Coma and Solar Bones. He has been described as “a disgracefully neglected writer.