New literary prize for women writers of fiction
New Delhi Oct 28 PTI A new literary prize for women announced on Thursday aims to put the spotlight on women writers and also shrink the gap that comes to awarding the work of men and women in writingInstituted by the New Delhi-based womens platform SheThePeople novels and short story collections by single authors in English or regional languages will be eligible for the Women Writers Prize for fictionWorks of fiction submitted for the award should have female protagonists written by Indian women writers residing in India The protagonists should be engaged in an honest struggle to improve their own and thus their sisters fate which may have been negatively impacted by economic gender class social or any other discrimination the organisers saidEach publishing house can send up to four submissions Books submitted should have been published between August 1 2020 and October 1 2021 The award carries prize money of Rs 50000 In case of translated work the award money will be shared equally between writer and translatorThe submission deadline is November 25 The longlist will be announced on January 20 2022 the shortlist on February 15 and the winner will be named on March 1 2022It is the wide range of womens writing which is ever-growing that the inaugural Women Writers Prize aims to shine a light on There is a visible gap when it comes to awarding the work of men and women in almost all fields including writing that needs to be urgently shrunk the organisers saidAccording to prize mentor and novelist Shashi Deshpande the idea of the insignificance of womens lives and experiences has spilled over into their writing and branded it as trivial and insignificant whereas the truth is that every single human experience is part of the infinite tapestry of the human story without womens stories the record remains incompleteA literary prize exclusively for womens writing can right the wrong and give womens writing the prestige and dignity that all writing deserves she saidFounder of SheThePeople and this prize Shaili Chopra said she believes there is a need to read more of womens writing and understand and absorb stories as told by womenWe also need to champion more female authors from India whose writings bring new and inclusive elements to the idea of the written word she addedPrize curator and author Shinie Antony said this award is for original path-breaking women writers telling their stories in exciting new ways This award is exclusively to honour women writers among us who stun us with their extraordinary literary merit PTI ZMN RDS RDS
New Delhi Oct 28 PTI A new literary prize for women announced on Thursday aims to put the spotlight on women writers and also shrink the gap that comes to awarding the work of men and women in writingInstituted by the New Delhi-based womens platform SheThePeople novels and short story collections by single authors in English or regional languages will be eligible for the Women Writers Prize for fictionWorks of fiction submitted for the award should have female protagonists written by Indian women writers residing in India The protagonists should be engaged in an honest struggle to improve their own and thus their sisters fate which may have been negatively impacted by economic gender class social or any other discrimination the organisers saidEach publishing house can send up to four submissions Books submitted should have been published between August 1 2020 and October 1 2021 The award carries prize money of Rs 50000 In case of translated work the award money will be shared equally between writer and translatorThe submission deadline is November 25 The longlist will be announced on January 20 2022 the shortlist on February 15 and the winner will be named on March 1 2022It is the wide range of womens writing which is ever-growing that the inaugural Women Writers Prize aims to shine a light on There is a visible gap when it comes to awarding the work of men and women in almost all fields including writing that needs to be urgently shrunk the organisers saidAccording to prize mentor and novelist Shashi Deshpande the idea of the insignificance of womens lives and experiences has spilled over into their writing and branded it as trivial and insignificant whereas the truth is that every single human experience is part of the infinite tapestry of the human story without womens stories the record remains incompleteA literary prize exclusively for womens writing can right the wrong and give womens writing the prestige and dignity that all writing deserves she saidFounder of SheThePeople and this prize Shaili Chopra said she believes there is a need to read more of womens writing and understand and absorb stories as told by womenWe also need to champion more female authors from India whose writings bring new and inclusive elements to the idea of the written word she addedPrize curator and author Shinie Antony said this award is for original path-breaking women writers telling their stories in exciting new ways This award is exclusively to honour women writers among us who stun us with their extraordinary literary merit PTI ZMN RDS RDS
