Our Book of the Week, Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams, has just been awarded the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize ("for fiction at its most novel"). This unique multivocal multilocational collaborative novel tells of two friends, blocked writers struggling with the relationship between fiction and reality, who make friends with a man whose mother was forced to leave one of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean under the unlawful administration of the British government. Will fiction provide the friends with a way to tell a story that is not their own without appropriating or colonising that story?
>>Not a closed book.
>>Protest fiction for a new generation.
>>Protest fiction for a new generation.
>>Against the dogmatism of single-voiced fiction.
>>The urge to write in solidarity.
>>Art, life, and fiction.
>>Fifty years of state fiction.
>>The Last Colony by Philippe Sands tells of the injustices committed on Chagossians.
>>What can be done about half a century of unlawful administration?
>>Your copy.
>>Read the other books on the Goldsmiths short list.
>>The urge to write in solidarity.
>>Art, life, and fiction.
>>Fifty years of state fiction.
>>The Last Colony by Philippe Sands tells of the injustices committed on Chagossians.
>>What can be done about half a century of unlawful administration?
>>Your copy.
>>Read the other books on the Goldsmiths short list.