Giada Scodellaro Wins 2024 Novel Prize
New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions, and Giramondo have announced that Giada Scodellaro has won the 2024 Novel Prize for her novel Ruins, Child.
The Novel Prize is a biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world. It offers $10,000 to the winner and simultaneous publication in North America by New York-based New Directions, in the UK and Ireland by Fitzcarraldo Editions, and in Australia and New Zealand by the Sydney-based publisher Giramondo. Selected from 1,100 submissions, Scodellaro’s debut novel—which centers on six women sharing a space in a crumbling apartment tour—will be published simultaneously by all three publishers in early 2026.
“I am so humbled, so thrilled, so in awe of this outcome,” Scodellaro said. “What a dream it is for this work to exist outside of myself. A collaboration with the extraordinary New Directions, Fitzcarraldo, and Giramondo affords Ruins, Child an urgent and expansive opportunity—a life.”
