Winning for Demon Copperhead, a ‘deeply powerful’, US-set Dickens update, the American novelist becomes the first writer to win the contest for a second time. Read more
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Tag: Female Authors
From Jazz Age Renegade to Best-Selling Chronicler of Women’s Lives
A decorated writer in the 1940s, Nancy Hale analyzed the gap between the rhetoric of liberation and the realities of female experience. Why has she fallen into obscurity? Read more
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The Struggle to Unearth the World’s First Author
Decades ago, archeologists discovered the work of Enheduanna, an ancient priestess who seemed to alter the story of literature. Why hasn’t her claim been affirmed? Read more
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How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity
Works written decades ago, often by female Jewish immigrants, were dismissed as insignificant or unmarketable. But in the past several years, translators devoted to the literature are making it available to a wider readership. Read more
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Women’s prize for fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees
Susanna Clarke, Yaa Gyasi and Patricia Lockwood among the six authors up for the £30,000 award. Read more
