New women’s writing prizes launched to address The Great Gender Imbalance
Picture a philosopher and perhaps you conjure up an image of a beardy old man ponderously stroking his whiskers. Google ‘most famous philosophers’ and you’ll be bombarded with a barrage… Read more »
Surprise! An American wins the Man Booker again
The winner of the Man Booker Prize, the UK’s most prestigious literary award, has been announced, and it’s a book by an American. Again. George Saunders, beloved short-story author and What… Read more »
It’s Booker time!
The Man Booker Prize 2016 longlist was announced yesterday at noon. The Booker “dozen” of thirteen novels was chosen from 155 submissions, published in the UK between 1 October 2015 and 30… Read more »
Lionel Shriver calls the Year of Publishing Women “rubbish”
Last year we reported on novelist Kamila Shamsie’s call to make 2018 the “Year of Publishing Women”—an effort to correct the gender imbalance among authors who win and judge major… Read more »