- The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction has announced six shortlisted works, including works that explore the impact of the internet and artificial intelligence.
- The $38,000 award aims to address the gender imbalance in nonfiction publishing and is open to female writers from around the world.
- The winners of the fiction and non-fiction categories will be announced at a ceremony in London on 13 June.
A book about the dizzying impact of the internet and artificial intelligence has been named a finalist for the New Book Prize, which aims to help tackle the gender imbalance in non-fiction publishing.
The six shortlisted books for the inaugural Women’s Nonfiction Prize, announced Wednesday, include “Doppleganger” by Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein, which delves into online misinformation, and “Doppleganger” by British journalist Madhumita Murgia “Code Dependencies: Living in the Shadow of Artificial Intelligence.” “
The $38,000 prize is a sister prize to the 29-year-old Women’s Prize for Fiction and is open to female English-language writers from any country and in any genre of non-fiction.
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Shortlisted works also include autobiographical works – poet Safia Sinclair’s How to Say Babylon: A Memoir of Jamaica and British art critic Laura Cumming’s Thunderbolt: A Memoir of Art, Life and Sudden Death 》.
On July 1, 2015, Naomi Klein arrived at the Vatican for a press conference. The six books shortlisted for the inaugural Women’s Nonfiction Prize, announced Wednesday, include Klein’s “Doppleganger,” a deep dive into online misinformation. (AP Photo/Andrew Medicini, File)
British writer Noreen Massoud’s travel memoir “Flat Place” and “All She Carried,” by Harvard history professor Tia Myers, which tells the story of American slavery through a black family’s memorabilia, rounded out the list. History.
Jury chair Suzannah Lipscomb, a British historian, said: “Readers of these books will never see the world the same again, whether through art, history, landscape, politics, religion or technology.”
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The winners of the non-fiction and fiction categories will be announced at a ceremony in London on 13 June.
The award was created in response to the gender imbalance in the book world, whereby men buy more non-fiction books and write more award-winning non-fiction books than women
Nielsen Book Research found in 2019 that while women accounted for 59% of UK book sales, men bought just over half of adult non-fiction books.
Prize organizers say that by 2022, only 26.5% of non-fiction books reviewed in British newspapers will be by female authors, while male writers dominate the established non-fiction writing awards.