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Article: Orange Prize is sexist and discriminatory: Tim Lott
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- The Hindustan Times
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- March 18, 2008
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London, March 18 -- A prominent British novelist Tim Lott has branded the Orange Prize for Fiction, Britain's leading literary award for women, 'sexist and discriminatory' and wants it to be scrapped.
Lott, who won the rival Whitbread First Novel Award in 2000 for 'White City Blues', said a lot of writers he had spoken to find the prize ridiculous and unfair.
"I know that I face derision and ridicule but a lot of writers I have spoken to find it [the prize
] ridiculous and unfair," he added.
He said it was no longer possible to say that women were a mistreated minority in the literary world and the 30,000 pounds Orange ...