COUNTING WOMEN – in the awarding of literary prizes
The Lack of Visibility of Female Authors in the awarding of literary prizes
Are women disadvantaged in the literature industry? Or maybe we just write worse than men and are therefore rightly underrepresented in the literary canon?
Numbers are known to speak for themselves. For this reason, under the motto #COUNTING WOMEN by various networks and committed journalists, data will be presented showing how often women are valued compared to men in the literary world, how often they sit in juries, who recounts who and how often.
Here are the numbers: