Kanika Batra

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Winner of the Women’s Prize for Non-fiction Rachel Clarke for ‘The Story of a Heart’, right, Women’s Prize for Outstanding Contributor Bernardine Evaristo, centre, and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction Yael van der Wouden, right, who wrote ‘The Safekeep,’ in London, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Joanna Chan)

Why we still need a women’s prize for fiction

Binhammer, Katherine, University of Alberta; Kanika Batra, Texas Tech University; Maryse Jayasuriya, Saint Louis University, and Theo Gray, University of Alberta

Some ways we will know we no longer need women’s book prizes: when men read as much writing by women as that by men, and when women begin to dominate prizes for prestige genres such as non-fiction.

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