8 June 2015
Analysis of the last 15 years of winners of six major literary awards by the critically acclaimed author Nicola Griffith has found that a novel is more likely to land a prize if the focus of the narrative is male.
Griffith looked at the winners of the Pulitzer, Man Booker, National Book award, National Book Critics' Circle award, Hugo and Newbery medal winners over the last 15 years. She collated the gender of the winners, and that of their protagonists, finding that for the Pulitzer, for example, "women wrote zero out of 15 prize-winning books wholly from the point of view of a woman or girl".
