There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.
Emma DonoghueI was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.
Emma Donoghue