- The Women’s Nonfiction Prize has announced six finalists, including works that deal with the impact of the internet and artificial intelligence.
- The $38,000 award aims to address gender imbalances in nonfiction publishing and is open to women writers from around the world.
- The winners of the Fiction and Non-Fiction Prizes will be announced at a ceremony in London on June 13th.
The shortlist for a new book award aimed at redressing the gender imbalance in nonfiction publishing includes books about the dizzying impact of the internet and artificial intelligence.
The six shortlisted books for the inaugural Women’s Nonfiction Prize, announced Wednesday, include Doppelgänger, by Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein, who tackles online misinformation, and British journalist Madhumita’s Includes Murdja’s “Code Addiction: Living in the Shadow of AI.” ”
The $38,000 prize is a sister product to the 29-year-old Women’s Fiction Prize, and is open to women writers in English from any country in any genre of nonfiction.
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The shortlist also includes autobiographical works such as poet Safiyah Sinclair’s How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir and British art critic Laura Cumming’s Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Surund Death. It is.
Naomi Klein arrives at the Vatican for a press conference on July 1, 2015. Klein’s Doppelgänger, which takes a dig at online misinformation, was among the six books shortlisted for the inaugural Women’s Nonfiction Prize, which she announced Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)
Rounding out the list are British author Noreen Massoud’s travelogue and memoir, A Flat Place, and Harvard history professor Tiya’s story of American enslavement told through the mementos of one black family. It’s “All That She Carried” by Miles.
British historian Susannah Lipscombe, chair of the judging panel, said: “The readers of these books will never again see the world through art, history, landscape, politics, religion and technology.” Stated.
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The winners of the non-fiction and fiction prizes will be announced at a ceremony in London on June 13th.
The award was established in response to the gender imbalance in the book world, where men buy more nonfiction and write more award-winning nonfiction books than women.
In 2019, Nielsen Book Research revealed that women bought 59% of all books sold in the UK, while men accounted for just over half of adult non-fiction purchases. .
Only 26.5% of non-fiction books reviewed in British newspapers in 2022 were written by women, and the majority of established non-fiction writing awards were held by male authors, the award organizers said.
