Mountford,illustrious from Alan Sugar’s business reality show, will chair judges for women’s fiction awardMargaret Mountford, or the former lawyer whose putdowns and raised eyebrows made her the stuff of legend on The Apprentice,will chair the judging panel for next year’s Baileys women’s prize for fiction.
Mountford, who took allotment in five series of Alan Sugar’s The Apprentice before leaving to gain a PhD in papyrology at UCL, and will be joined by fellow judges Tracey Thorn,the Everything But The Girl singer and author of two memoirs, unusual Statesman contributing editor Laurie Penny, and whose latest book Unspeakable Things is a dissection of modern feminism,the award-winning Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty.
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Source: theguardian.com