{"id":1981,"date":"2015-06-04T19:27:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2015-06-04T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T09:27:22","slug":"women-count-miles-franklin-literary-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Women Count (Miles Franklin Literary Award)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A little over a week ago, the rather fabulous Nicola Griffith . In particular, she looked not just at the gender of award-winners, but the gender of the subjects of their books. As she writes:<\/p>\n

When women win literary awards for fiction it\u2019s usually for writing from a male perspective and\/or about men. The more prestigious the award, the more likely the subject of the narrative will be male.<\/p>\n

I thought I’d add some Australian data to the pool. So, herewith the first in what I hope will be short series of posts looking at the gender of protagonists\/viewpoint characters in literary awards, and the genders of their authors. I’m starting with the Miles Franklin Literary Award<\/a>, since discussion of the gender of the authors was part of what kicked off the conversation that resulted in the founding of the Stella Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Miles_Franklin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This pie chart shows the breakdown of the gender combination of author + viewpoint character for the winners of the Miles Franklin Literary Award between 1994 and 2014. The numbers are:<\/p>\n

By women about women\/girls: 2*
\nBy women about men\/boys: 0
\nBy women about both: 5<\/span><\/p>\n

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By men about women\/girls: 2
\nBy men about men\/boys: 10
\nBy men about both: 3<\/p>\n

By ‘about’ here I’ve looked at who are the POV characters: obviously all the books here include characters of both genders.\u00a0I’ve included Astley’s Drylands<\/em> in ‘women writing about women’, though I’m not sure it shouldn’t rightly be women writing about\/from the perspective of both genders.<\/p>\n

So, I’m working on which awards to do next. I’m thinking of the Aurealis Awards, or the Queensland (Premier’s) Literary Awards. Which Australian literary awards do you think we should ‘count’?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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