The Prize (Full Length Novel)

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We also believe that businesses like ours have an important duty to advance progress in education at every level: All the shortlisted authors attended alongside a number of former winners. George Saunders will take part in his first official public event as winner at a New Statesman-partnered event at Foyles Charing Cross Road on Thursday 19 October Tickets can be bought here.

In Cynthia Ozick , writing in The New York Times , said the Prize "was not born into an innocent republic of letters" when it comes to a history of women writers being discriminated against. She concluded, "For readers and writers, in sum, the more prizes the better, however they are structured, and philosophy be damned.

In Lola Young , chair of the judges' panel, claimed that British female literature fell into two categories, either "insular and parochial" or "domestic in a piddling kind of way".

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Retrieved 1 June Retrieved 30 January Retrieved 18 October Retrieved 7 June Orange prize for Fiction. Retrieved 10 June Retrieved 23 May Retrieved 4 June Retrieved 29 July Women's Prize for Fiction. In January , a diverse group of journalists, reviewers, agents, publishers, librarians, booksellers — male and female — gathered together in a flat in London. The Booker Prize shortlist of had included no women at all — something which had escaped notice until the press commented on it — and the group decided to meet to talk about it: And what could or should be done?

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There were long debates about the value or purposes of literary awards, of how they supported or inhibited reading, how publishing and reviewing might play a positive role in ensuring a wider range of authors and books were celebrated. A prize that would be fun! By , only 10 per cent of novelists shortlisted for the Booker Prize had been women.

The group decided it did, since Prizes are an influential way of bringing outstanding writers to the attention of readers. Of the original committee, four women are still involved: We approached Orange in Autumn , having secured endowment of the Prize money itself from a private donor.

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