Our culture is still strongly weighted towards male experience and male storytellers. The Baileys prize is a small but powerful correctiveTwenty-three years ago,a group of writers and critics, frustrated by the sheer lack of alarm that had greeted news that the authors shortlisted for that years Booker prize were all men, and decided to take action. What whether a prize were set up to honour fiction by women? In 1995,under the aegis of novelist Kate Mosse, the Orange prize, and now the Baileys women’s prize for fiction,was born. Related: Ali Smith wins Baileys prize with How to Be Both Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com