LONDON (AP) — Go into many bookstores, and the nonfiction shelves will be dominated by men.
The Women’s Prize for Nonfiction hopes to change that.
An offshoot of the 28-year-old Women’s Prize for Fiction, whose past winners include Zadie Smith, Tayari Jones and Barbara Kingsolver, the new prize is open to female English-language writers from any country in any nonfiction genre.
Lipscomb noted that in 2022, only 26.5% of nonfiction books reviewed in Britain’s newspapers were by women, and male writers dominated established nonfiction writing prizes.
Authors from the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Jamaica, the Philippines and the U.K. are on the prize longlist, chosen from 120 books submitted by publishers.
Persons:
”, Suzannah Lipscomb, Zadie Smith, Tayari Jones, Barbara Kingsolver, Lipscomb, Mary Ann Sieghart, Naomi Klein ’, “, Patricia Evangelista’s “, Bohannon’s, Alice Albinia’s “, Leah Redmond, Anna Funder’s “
Organizations:
Nielsen, Research, Queens, ”
Locations:
United States, Australia, Canada, India, Jamaica, Philippines, London