Letter: A woman's place
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Women form a considerable percentage of serious novelists. They have won the Booker prize 10 times, while men have won 19 times; the Whitbread twice and men 9 times; the Nobel 9 times and men 78 times.Whether that is a fair proportion in each case, it would be almost impossible to say; but why should they not have a chance, too, of competing with their own sex?
Yours faithfully,
Martyn Goff
Book Trust
London, SW18
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