![]() ![]() ![]() This might be surprising, if women didn’t write about as many books as men (but probably more fiction), buy 68 per cent of books, read about 80 per cent of fiction, or comprise up to 85 per cent of the publishing industry … but they do, so let’s all try to stay calm, OK? The five shortlisted novelists are Romy Ash for Floundering Annah Faulkner, The Beloved Michelle de Kretser, Questions of Travel Drusilla Modjeska, The Mountain and Carrie Tiffany, Mateship with Birds. Now, the Miles Franklin Award – Australia’s oldest and most prestigious literary prize – has announced its shortlist and, shock horror, it’s all female. Then the Desmond Elliott Prize longlist was unveiled, with seven women to three men. First, Granta announced its latest list of the Best of Young British Novelists, which had 12 women and eight men. Poor men must be starting to think there’s a conspiracy, now that the third literary list in a month has been released that has more female authors on it than male. ![]()
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