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Several signatories of the letter hid behind false names, including those of dead women writers including Emily Dickinson and Daphne du Maurier, “because of the threat of harassment by trans extremists and/or cancellation by the book industry”. According to the signatories of the open letter, the decision to longlist Peters for the Women’s prize “communicates powerfully that women authors are unworthy of our own prize, and that it is fine to allow male people to appropriate our honours … the moment you decided that a male author was eligible, the award ceased to be the Women’s prize and became simply the Fiction prize”.

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