Frances Hardinge’s Costa success tops off a great year for female authors as diversity rules at the book awards
Whereas next month’s Oscars are expected to see a procession of white heterosexual men collecting statuettes as 2015’s films are feted, not one has been spotted on a podium picking up a major British award for fiction or poetry in a year when diversity, for once, ruled. As well as concluding the 2015 literary prize season, Frances Hardinge’s success (see interview, page 15) this week in winning the Costa book of the year award confirmed its status as a bad one for men.
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