Bernice Rubens won the 1970 Booker prize for her novel, The Elected Member, and is the only Welsh person to have ever won the prize.
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African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
There are reasons many female writers chose to publish under male pseudonyms. Republishing their books under their female names denies them agency.
Novelist Emily Bernhard Jackson has identified an important gap in contemporary crime fiction: middle-aged women detectives.
The history of children’s books gives us very few really villainous female characters – and most of them are witches or evil queens.
A vivid and remarkable body of writing is emerging to highlight the human cost of the war in Syria.
During her lifetime, Zelda Fitzgerald’s creativity and contribution to her husband’s work were woefully undervalued. Two new films will tell her story.
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Lecturer in English, University of Exeter
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Lecturer in English, City, University of London
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Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Centre for Corpus Research, University of Birmingham
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Doctoral Researcher in department of English Literature, Loughborough University
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Professor of English, College of Charleston
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Senior Co-ordinating Lecturer in Humanities, Cardiff University
