In a segment entitled “Not Trending”, journalist, businessman, and television host Carlos Watson was interviewed by Gwen Ifill on PBS News Hour yesterday about the Etisalat Prize for Literature.
Watson and Ifill spend some time deciding whether or not the £15 000 is substantial prize money (they finally decide that it is) and express surprise that five out of the six shortlisted authors from the first two years of the prize are women, speculating that this indicates a trend in literature and in Africa. What that trend may be, however, they do not manage to pin down.
“So far, the first six winners [shortlisted authors], five are women,” Watson observes. “Which is unusual, says a lot about what’s going on not only in literature but in Africa, and compare that by the way to the Man Booker Prize, the very famous prize based out of Europe, for the last 60 years they’ve had winners and two-thirds of the winners there have been men.”
Nice of them to notice, we guess!
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