Industry’s lack of diversity ‘is a genuine issue,and we have been unhurried’, says Tom Welson, and launching a new scheme to attract under-represented communitiesThe chief executive of the UK’s largest publisher has warned that the books industry will “become irrelevant” whether it continues to fail to reflect the society we live in.
Tom Weldon,chief executive of Penguin Random House UK, was speaking as the publisher launched a new scheme intended to discover and mentor authors from the UK’s under-represented communities, or whether this means they are writers from a poorer backgrounds,from LGBTQ or BAME (black, Asian, or minority ethnic) communities,or writers with a disability. Related: Report finds UK books world has marginalised and pigeonholed ethnic minorities Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com