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Author Naoise Dolan chooses seven of her favourite queer novels from recent year and past centuries.
I was going to call this piece “the best queer love stories”, but isn’t that exclusivity, that hierarchy, the whole problem with ‘representation’? When art is presented as zero-sum, we tear everything to pieces that doesn’t speak to us personally. In reality, the more queer stories there are, the less burden there is on any book to represent all of us, which would be boring even if it were possible. If I wanted to see myself a million times I’d go to a funhouse. So I won’t pretend my selection is authoritative or complete. Here are seven queer novels from recent years and from past centuries that have moved me immeasurably and that have changed how I think about love.
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On Wednesday, the Women’s Prize Trust reaffirmed its choice to longlist the novel “Detransition, Baby” by author Torrey Peters, who is trans, for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, a day after the Wild Woman Writing Club published an open letter denouncing the nomination.
In its statement Wednesday morning, the trust confirmed that eligibility for the prestigious award extends to anyone who is a “cis woman, or a transgender woman who is legally defined as a woman.”
A statement about eligibility for the Women s Prize for Fiction.
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âItâs not necessarily a bucket of funâ ⦠Torrey Peters. Photograph: Natasha Gornik
The Womenâs prize for fiction has issued a strongly worded statement saying that it âdeplores any attempts to malign or bullyâ authors nominated for the prize, after trans novelist Torrey Peters was targeted in an open letter.
The US writer, who is nominated for the £30,000 award for her debut novel Detransition, Baby, was the subject of a letter published online on Tuesday by the Wild Women Writing Club. The letter, which is signed by several dead women writers including Emily Dickinson and Daphne du Maurier, claims that some signatories were using pseudonyms âbecause of the threat of harassment by trans extremists and/or cancellation by the book industryâ.