Are The Top Literary Awards Gender Skewed?
The winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 will be announced this month. A few weeks back, when the shortlist was announced, several media reports celebrated the fact that women authors formed a majority on that list.
News reports with headlines such as 'Women Writers Dominate 2018 Man Booker Prize Shortlist' and 'Anna Burns, Esi Edugyan Among Four Women Shortlisted For Man Booker 2018' did the rounds on the Internet, and for a moment, there was a glimmer of happiness that finally, one of the top literary prizes of the…