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Man-booker winner Marlon James: 'Writers of colour pander to the white woman'

Written By Unknown on Monday, November 30, 2015 | 7:49 AM

The 2015 Man Booker winner has blasted the publishing industry for pressuring authors to write ‘astringent prose set in suburbia’ for an ‘archetype of the white woman’

The 2015 Man Booker prize winner Marlon James has slammed the publishing world, saying authors of colour too often “pander to white women” to sell books, and that he could have been published more often if he had written “middle-style prose and private ennui”.

At a sold-out Guardian event on Friday night, James said publishers too often sought fiction that “pander to that archetype of the white woman, that long-suffering, astringent prose set in suburbia. You know, ‘older mother or wife sits down and thinks about her horrible life’.”

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