Oyinkan Braithwaite, Diana Evans listed for $40,000 2019 Women’s Prize for Literature

The prestigious prize has honoured many great authors since it was launched in 1996, including Chimamanda Adichie, who won in 2007 withNAN reports that it is a significant career boost and it comes wi

th a £30,000 prize.

It was created after the Bookers Prize of 1991 where none of the six shortlisted books was by a woman, despite 60 per cent of novels that year being published by female authors. Chaired by Prof. Kate Williams, the 2019 judging panel includes journalists Dolly Alderton, Arifa Akbar, and anti-FGM activist Leyla Hussein.Unruly,

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