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Lionel Shriver: Insensitivity Reader - Live at the UnHerd Club

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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Do You Still Need a Women's Prize for Fiction?

"There was a real historical disparity in the award of especially the big prizes for women," she says. "The trouble is that women will read anything by anybody, kind of like sex." She adds: "We now have a serious reverse discrimination situation whereby especially debut authors ... simply cannot get into print if they are straight white males"

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