Comments on: Novel categories – Aurealis Award and the Ditmar

By: AlisaK

AlisaK — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:22:34 +0000

glad you’re enjoying it!

By: Sean the Bookonaut

Sean the Bookonaut — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:58:24 +0000

Keep it coming Alisa, I really am enjoying your Phd. All the benefit none of the hard work

But seriously it is a little sobering.

By: Helen

Helen — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 01:03:01 +0000

very interesting. Not surprising, but always good to see the figures.
I think its important to note that their is also a genre/gender factor at work here too, especially in terms of the conveners award. It is very rare for the YA (or horror) novel to have taken this one out, from memory/ experience. WOuld be good to check, but often you’ll find the SF novel taking precedence (which of course has majority of male winners) so the privileging of SF within the genre also works to ‘invisibly’ favour male writers.
On the up side, your figures also show that the women dominating fantasy is not a new thing, but almost a commonplace.

would be good to see the shortlist breakdown for the ditmars as well – more work!
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By: AlisaK

AlisaK — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:04:29 +0000

Indeed.

By: AlisaK

AlisaK — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:03:14 +0000

I’ll amend.

But yeah, I think that don’t notice on a *case by case* basis.

By: Tansy Rayner Roberts

Tansy Rayner Roberts — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:00:31 +0000

If we’re making it official, I believe Tansy’s theory should have a ‘mostly’ added to it – would be churlish of me to suggest people never pick a single woman since my book kind of won that one time.

The addendum to Tansy’s theory is that if an award which only honours a single person at a time picks a man over and over and over again, most people don’t notice.

By: Paul Weimer (@princejvstin)

Paul Weimer (@princejvstin) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:53:05 +0000

Thanks, Alisa

Enlightening but sobering.