Tonight the Man Booker Prize for Fiction will be awarded. There are three women on the shortlist of six: AS Byatt, Sarah Waters and Hilary Mantel and all of them are strong contenders; indeed Mantel is the current favourite. So are we seeing a change in the status of women’s writing, and if so why? Has the women-only Orange Prize had a role to play? To discuss the issues Jenni is joined by the novelist and critic Louise Doughty who was a Man Booker judge last year and by the writer and broadcaster Bidisha, who was on the Orange Prize jury this year.
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