Still, the local scene has been seeing changes, with more young female writers emerging into the spotlight these days and publishers accepting more female writers.Įdmund Wee, chief executive officer of Epigram Books, said he is “gender-blind” when selecting manuscripts for publication. Despite notable female authors such as J K Rowling and, closer to home, Catherine Lim, the consensus is that women writers remain disadvantaged in a male-dominated literary world.Īccording to a 2013 Guardian article, a report by Vida, an American organisation for women in the literary arts, found that male authors and reviewers continue to take a disproportionate slice of the literary pie.Įlizabeth Jane Howard, the author behind the Cazalet tetralogy, also said that year that female authors had suffered “a hard time politically and sexually”, suggesting little had changed since the 19th century. The literary scene has long been dominated by men.
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