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New Statesman | Why we still need women-only book prizes

4 June, 201523 February, 2017 ~ Sarah Ditum

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Ali Smith’s How to be Both, the winner of the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, is a particularly apt riposte to the literary class divide that says men are serious and women are silly.

Read the full post at the New Statesman

Posted in Books, Feminism, Opinions Ali SmithBaileys PrizeHow to be Both

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I’m a columnist, critic and feature writer with bylines at the New Statesman, the Guardian, the Spectator, the Independent, Eurogamer, Stylist, Grazia, Elle and more. Regular TV and radio appearances, including Newsnight and Today. Available for teaching and talks. Anti-fun feminist. Represented by Juliet Pickering at Blake Friedman.

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