Bina, a novel by Irish-Canadian author Anakana Schofield, which secured a British publisher only after The Irish Times reviewed its Canadian edition, has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Goldsmiths Prize. Schofield, who was also shortlisted for her previous novel, Martin John, is joined on the shortlist by another former Irish resident, Man Booker Prize winner DBC Pierre, for Meanwhile in Dopamine City (Faber). After a review in The Irish Times of the Knopf Canada edition, Bina found a publisher – Fleet – in the UK and Ireland. Frances Wilson on BinaStartlingly original and horribly funny, Anakana Schofield’s Bina is that rare thing: a black comedy about euthanasia. Her debut novel Malarky won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in the United States and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Source: The Irish Times October 14, 2020 19:01 UTC