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Novelist S.L. Lim has become the first non-binary writer to be in contention for one of Australia’s most important literary awards since changes were made to the eligibility requirements of the $50,000 Stella Prize for women’s writing.
But Lim, who made the longlist with second novel
Revenge: Murder in Three Parts, played down the significance of the inclusion which comes after the award changed entry guidelines to include women-identifying and non-binary writers in 2019.
Lim said they did not see their achievement as a milestone because the inclusion of non-binary and trans women in the prize was simply a necessary correction of a harmful prejudice. It was only noteworthy, they said, because the “standard of human being in the world is so incredibly low that not being a TERF [trans-exclusionary radical feminist] is something we need to feel gratitude for”.
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Book World: Too many narrators can turn an audiobook into a confusing radio play
Katherine A. Powers, The Washington Post
Feb. 16, 2021
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Are audiobooks books? Certainly listening to a book is a different experience from reading it: Backtracking to check details in an audiobook is awkward, and, in many cases, you don t retain as much as you do with the printed version. Finally, there s the difficult-to-define relationship of listener to book: Your own imagination and interpretation have more independence when reading a book yourself than when a narrator s voice controls the text. Audiobooks could be said to be a species of translation: Although true to the words, they are different in character from the original, the printed page. But they are books all the same.