Year of the Women Writers
In a special programme Ellah Allfrey, Sally Gardner, Sarah Hall, Lennie Goodings and James Runcie discuss with Mariella Frostrup why 2013 has been the Year of the Women Writers
Producer: Andrea Kidd.
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Prize Winning Female Authors 2013
Alice Munro
Noble Prize in Literature 2013
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Lydia Davis
Man Booker International Prize 2013
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Eleanor Catton
Man Booker Prize 2013 for ‘The Luminaries’
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Michelle de Kretser
Australia’s Miles Franklin Award for ‘Questions of Travel’
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Hilary Mantel
David Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement
Man Booker Prize Oct 2012 for ‘Bring Up The Bodies’
Costa Award 2012 for ‘Bring Up The Bodies’
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Sally Gardner
CILIP Carnegie Medal for ‘Maggot Moon’
Costa Children’s Book Award for ‘Maggot Moon’
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A M Holmes
Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for ‘May We Be Forgiven’
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for ‘The Pike’
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Katie Ward
Clarissa Luard Award
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Sarah Hall
Named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2013
´óÏó´«Ã½ National Short Story Award for ‘Mrs Fox’
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Ros Barber
The Desmond Eliot Prize for debut novel ‘The Marlowe Papers’
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Angela Jackson
Edinburg International Book Festival First Book Award
for ’The Emergence of Judy Taylor’
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VIRAGO Book Readings:
‘Daughters of the House’ by Michel Roberts
‘Union Street’ by Pat Barker
‘Surfacing’ by Margaret Atwood
Booklist
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner, published by Hot Key Books
Tinder by Sally Gardner published by Orion
Wings & Co - The Fairy Detective Agency Series by Sally Gardner, published by Orion
The Beautiful Indifference, short story collectionÌýby Sarah Hall, published by Faber
The Carhullan Army (Daughters of the North) by Sarah Hall, published by Faber
Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall, published by Faber
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo, published by Chatto & Windus
Girl Reading by Katie Ward, published by Virago
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Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Mariella Frostrup |
Interviewed Guest | Ellah Allfrey |
Interviewed Guest | Sally Gardner |
Interviewed Guest | Sarah Hall |
Interviewed Guest | James Runcie |
Interviewed Guest | Lennie Goodings |
Producer | Andrea Kidd |
Broadcasts
- Sun 22 Dec 2013 16:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Boxing Day 2013 15:30´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4