Women’s Prize 2020 Longlist Predictions with Anna
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Anna James and I are back to give our predictions of what might be listed for the Women’s Prize this year before the official announcement on March 3rd. What 16 novels will be in contention? Let us know in the comments what you’re hoping to see on this year’s list! Click ‘Show More’ for info.
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Eligibility for this year’s prize includes novels by female authors published in the UK between April 1, 2019-March 31, 2020. The official longlist will be announced on March 3rd. Find out more: www.womenspriz...
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My predictions:
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
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The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
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The Tenth Muse by Catherine Chung
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
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The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
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Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
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The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
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The Heavens by Sandra Newman
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Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
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Weather by Jenny Offill
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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
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Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
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Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
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Anna’s predictions:
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
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Trust Exercise - Susan Choi
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The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins
Dominica by Angie Cruz
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes
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The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
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The Heavens by Sandra Newman
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid
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My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
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The Bass Rock - Evie Wyld
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Bonus prediction:
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride
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I can certainly picture you two, thirty years from now (looking only only slightly older, I might add), stlll giving us the Women' Prize-predictions. :-)
Haha, I hope so! Although I expect my beard will be very very white by then! 😬
This is a BookTube ritual that, like the two of you, never gets old. 😍. High praise, considering I have no use for the Women’s Prize-other than these videos!
Shawn The Book Maniac you have “no use” for the Women’s Prize ?
Sir Readsalot I do have one use: whichever books make it onto the short list are the ones I know I will inevitably hate. :-)
The problem with having a beard is that I can plainly see my age progressing with every new white hair. 😬
Yaaay, best thing about this time of year! I have a hunch about some others that might be on the list, so I'm putting them here in case even one of them gets on and I can be like "look I guessed a thing": The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo, Inland by Téa Obreht, The Need by Helen Phillips, and The Travelers by Regina Porter (all of which I enjoyed and would recommend to different groups of readers!)
OH ALSO The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy, Actress by Anne Enright, and Long Bright River by Liz Moore (three that I would love an extra reason to read). Okay now I’m done for real
@@InsertLiteraryPunHere I had the Lombardo and Obreht on my list - Inland was the very last one I crossed off to make it to 16! And I've heard such good things about the Lombardo too. I love Levy's non-fiction but I just can't get on with her novels so didn't include that one as I don't want to read it! I also know this is an unpopular opinion but I haven't historically got on with Anne Enright either. Can't wait to see what makes the actual list..!
I've heard great things about Lombardo book and I got a copy of Inland a month or so ago (partly because of your praise for it.) Personally, I felt a bit blah about Levy's novel. I'm very excited for Enright's new novel. 📚📚📚
I’m kicking myself for not picking Queenie, I read it in 2018 so missed it when I went through my 2019 reading list. Lol. Foolish. Mind you I forgot O’Brien, Mantel and many more, whilst also still cheating and mentioning more than 16 books. Anna’s reaction to you not reading Wolf Hall made me CACKLE very loudly. Drats. I thought Hamnet was out in April. Silly me. I’ve been thinking Marian Keyes might be on the list this year. There was too many good books to choose from. What a lucky position for us all to be in. Ha.
*Such* a difficult year to try and make a list for - I could have easily picked 40 books I would be excited to see there. And I immediately remembered loads of books as well as soon as we'd filmed that I can't believe I forgot about considering how much time I spent thinking about it! But hopefully it will all mean an excellent longlist even if we're all horribly wrong in our predictions..!
Also I just watched this back, and it's such a squawk when I realise Eric hasn't read Wolf Hall 😂
@@annajames2592 WHAAAT?! Haha. But I make up for it with my face frozen in shock when you admit to not having read Elizabeth Strout. 😂
I feel ashamed I've not read Queenie yet. There are way too many possibilities to expect any of us will be accurate, but all the more fun to guess and talk about.
Yay! These are some of my favourite videos of the year. Looking forward to both your reactions as the longest, shortlist and winner are announced.
Thanks! I believe we will do a longlist reaction after all and might have a very special third guest! 😃
One of my favorite videos of the year! (And the one that breaks my wallet every time.) 😂 Thank you!
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Terrific list. I've read three of them and thought that Evaristo's book was good and Choi's excellent but Ducks, Newbury was my favorite. I find your enthusiasm contagious and plan to read The Mercies next.
My most anticipated Booktube viewing of the year. Just finished "Weather" last night. Slightly unconvinced, as it's very similar stylistically to "Dept". But it did have some laugh out loud moments which is always to be celebrated. Hope Ducks makes the list. Also hope Scarlett Thomas' "Oligarchy" makes the list ( amodern day version of what you were describing for "The Illness" perhaps). Delighted to see she has returned to writing adult fiction. Have just ordered "Hurricane Season". On the Shafak, the premise of the title is completely undermined by the formal storytelling of the first part which would take considerably more than 10mins 38secs. The second part is such a violent change of tone that again I just couldn't buy into it, even though there is some beautiful writing throughout the book.
It'd be great if Scarlett Thomas was on the list as I've been wanting to read her novel. I'll be eager to hear what you think of Hurricane Season.
I really loved Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson, favourite book of last year. You've reminded me of how many I still need to read!
Saw Margaret Atwood in real life last night! So yep, I read and really enjoyed The Testaments (also listened to it on audio which takes longer but was a great experience to refresh it in my mind).
Other's I've read on your picks
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes
Still have to finish Ducks, part way through and had to return it to the library, so will pick it up again.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo - I'll probably read it next week, it's waiting on reserve at the library.
The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins on ebook from the library, must get to it.
Thanks for putting the others higher on my radar :D
I greatly enjoyed this discussion and was happy to see Anna after recently reading her two Pages & Co books. (Thoroughly delightful!)
'The Mercies' was a title that was new to me, but the description ticked a lot of boxes for me: Norway, witches, historical, true story, etc. It piqued my curiosity so much, I had to pause the video so I could order up a copy. Super excited now and can't wait to read it. Thank you!
Ah I'm so happy you enjoyed Anna's novels! Hope you enjoy The Mercies.
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes is amazing. I finished it tonight and was gripped throughout. Loved Natalie's style of writing. I think Queenie, which I haven't read stands a good chance of winning because it has been very successful. I have got Confessions of Frannie Langton to read and The Dutch House. Both novels I am excited to read. Lots of books you spoke about I hadn't heard of. Excited to find out more about those. Girl, Woman Other is a phenomenal read. So well executed. A definite ten out of ten book. I couldn't put it down and didn't want it to end. I hope it makes the list as I feel a lot of people still haven't appreciated this book as much as they should. Winning the Booker Prize jointly didn't elevate it as much as I think it would have done if it had been the only winner. Loved the video. I think American Dirt will be on the list but I don't think I shall be reading it. I was looking forward to it but from what I have now read the story isn't what I thought it was and I have lost interest.
YES! This absolutely made my day. I've been looking forward to this video since last year's Women's Prize.
Yay! 🎉
Yesssss! Perfect accompaniment to my first coffee of the day, I am so ready for this video 😃😃😃😃
I am so hyped for the longlist now, and I’ve just grabbed Frannie Langton, Such a Fun Age and The Heavens from my bookshelf! I agree that there are just so many good books this year. I agree with a lot of your picks but I would also love to see Expectation by Anna Hope and What Red Was by Rosie Price. Jacqueline Woodson’s Red at the Bone too, but I think that is probably under 30,000 words. I look forward to this vid every year, so definitely up for you both collaborating for the 25th anniversary stuff too!
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@@ramblinganna I've not seen Hope and Price's books. Will look them up. And I'm keen to read Red at the Bone too.
@@ramblinganna Oooh good reminder of Expectation - I haven't read it but I know so many people who have raved about it and I may well have included it if I'd remembered it! I thought What Red Was was a very difficult, moving read but it didn't quite come together in the end for me, but would not be mad to see it longlisted!
This was great! I have added quite a few to my neverending to-look-for - list 😊 Can’t wait to see your follow up videos.
Have a lovely day 😊
Thanks! So glad you enjoyed it. 😃
Yes! Was so thrilled when I saw this on my feed. I love these videos. Lots of library reservations placed now haha. Personally not convinced about Such a Fun Age. I didn’t think it was totally successful in what it was doing. Can’t wait for the longlist announcement.
I'd be super interested to hear more about how you didn't think it was successful?
Ah interesting! Getting differing opinions like that makes me even more interested to read it.
I was so excited when I saw this video was up. Great choices & it has been a bumper year so intrigued to see what makes the cut. I may be late to the party but am currently reading Lost Children Archive as you both raved about it last year - loving it!
Thanks for watching! 📚 And I'm so glad you're reading Luiselli's novel. 👏
Best morning accompaniment. Love your prediction and reaction videos.
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You've got me excited for the longlist announcement now! I've got Girl, Women, Other on reserve at the library so can't wait to read that. Really should get to The Doll Factory too as I bought myself a copy last year
Great! I think you'll really enjoy them both! 📚
Fabulous as always! I’m adding Frannie Langton and Dominica to my list. 😍 I LOVED A Thousand Ships, after silence of the girls it was the Greek myth retelling I’d been waiting for. Fingers crossed it makes the list. 🤞🏼 loved Ducks Newburyport too despite being sceptical of long books. ;)
I think you'll really enjoy Frannie and I need to get to A Thousand Ships. 📚📚📚 And Yay Ducks!
The Yield by Tara June Winch is an excellent Australian novel, not sure if it's been published in the UK yet, but it's amazing, it should be a strong contender in all the prizes. It's currently on the long-list for The Stella (Aus Women's Prize)...it's my pick for the win.
I always enjoy these videos every year, thanks Lads.
I may just pick up Ducks, Newburyport as my March of the Mammoths book - now there's an idea :)
Thanks! Hope you love Ellmann's novel as much as I did.
Yay! I've been looking forward to this for weeks! Another great video. Many of your predictions actually overlap with my personal longlist/wishlist. There are some books that I haven't read but they sound great and might just have a shot... like Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Actress by Anne Enright and Supper Club by Lara Williams. And I know that they usually choose a longlist of 16 but the official rules allow up to 20 books so you could have sneaked in a few extra predictions... ;) Since they're celebrating their 25th year, who knows, they might just pick a really long longlist!
I'd love it if Starling Days were on the list and I'm so excited to read Acress as well. Gosh, 20 books would feel a bit overwhelming but it'd be fun to have more to talk about.
I must admit I'm hoping they stick with 16 just because there's no way I'd get through 20 in time for the shortlist! I think Starling Days nearly made both of our lists, although I haven't read it yet. And I CAN'T BELIEVE I missed Supper Club - this has been on my TBR list for so long, but I thought it came out earlier than it actually did because I had a proof that's messed up my timeline! I would love to see it on the longlist!
I loved the second part of 10 minutes 38 seconds, the dynamic between the friends was great.
That's great, I'm glad you agree!
Yaaaaay! Love these videos every year, and this one is no exception. 🥳🥳🥳
So glad you enjoyed it! :)
I love all your videos but I must admit these ones with Anna are always the ones I look forward to partly for all the woman's prize goodness and partly just because you two together is just a joy to watch 🥰 XXX So many exciting possibilities ... I feel like Liz Moore could be on there too just because of the judging panel ... Eeeek exciting either ways!!! xxxx Thank you to you both for sharing these ...was so so good !!!❤️❤️
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it! We love filming together too. I've been wanting to read Liz Moore too so it'd be nice to see her listed. 📚
This was so much fun! I definitely hope that Frannie makes the list. I loved that book. I just picked up Weather today, so I’ll have to get to that soon. Can’t wait to see what’s on the list. Oh, I’m with Anna on the long books thing. I’m good up to around 400 pages. I start really complaining at 500. I don’t really even pick up books that are significantly over 500 pages. A perfect length for me is about 350 pages.
Thank you! Hope you enjoy Weather! It is nice and short!
Always look forward to your Women’s Prize video(s) every year.
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Like Anna, I love Wolf Hall and think it is one of my favourite books of all time. So Hillary Mantel's book has been so eagerly anticipated for so long and will probably be on any Women's Prize. Maggie O'Farrell is also a great writer so another one to look forward to
I love this video every year! Thank you for continuing to make it :)
I enjoy this prediction video you do together ever year. This is a great one! Like Anna, The Heavens was my favorite book of last year and I would love to see it win.
It'd be amazing if it won!
I love listening to the two of you chat about books!
I have to say - I really feel like Lucy Ellmann was cheated out of the Booker (even though both winners were certainly deserving), so I really, really hope she wins the Women’s Prize. Even though there are so many great books that deserve the attention, it seems like a grave injustice will have taken place if she doesn’t win. So my fingers are tightly crossed for her.
Also, both of you are waaaay too good looking. It’s not fair to the rest of us! 😂
Love this video for no other reason it streamlines what I want to read. But, oh my, the British covers (or the ones in your thumbnails) are so much nicer than the ones here in the US.
Thank you! Glad you can pick up some good tips. And I agree, I often (though not always) prefer UK covers.
Oh, how I wish Anna would come back to youtube (and we could have the Anna & Eric Bookclub back again)! Her videos were amazing :)
Anyway I'm happy this has truly become a booktube tradition!
The only book that would pain me not to see on the list is Cantoras, but I'm not really sure it's eligible for this year.
I’m doing my best to convince her to come back! 😉
And I’ve not heard of that one. I’ll look it up.
Yay! Always look forward to this video!
I agree with everyone. I look forward to your predictions each year. And I agree with most of your picks. I would hope The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall will be longlisted as well.
Oh I've not come across that. Thanks!
Anna, I didn't vote for Ducks to make the booktube prize longlist for the same reason. I'm reading it, but would hate to HAVE to finish it within 60 days.
I'm glad I'm not alone!
Uuuuu The Tenth Muse! I'm mathematician so I'm very interested in this one! Thank you! :) Okay, I'll go and watch the rest of the video! :D
Awesome! If you get a chance to read it let me know what you think as I'd be curious to hear from an actual mathematician what they think about it.
@@EricKarlAnderson I will! :)
great video. So many great books. Enjoyed both of your views
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Really enjoyed this - you both are having so much fun! Really pleased to see Frankisstein given a mention - I think it is an underrated book. No thoughts on Anne Enright's Actress? Its had some good reviews...
The Tenth Muse sounds like my kind of book! I’m a math major and love reading fiction about mathematicians. Always very complex characters just like mathematicians are such complex people 😂
Yay! One of my favorite videos of the year. Eric, I was also reminded of Ducks while reading Weather. I appreciate the craft and cleverness in both but I think I'm not the right reader for this style; for me the un-ending angst is too one-note overall. But I've added a several titles to my list and am moving The Heavens to the top of the pile. Looking forward to the rest of the women's prize videos.
I'm glad you saw that too. I feel like they just reflect so strongly how many people are feeling now, but appreciate it's not everyone's style. Hope you enjoy Newman's novel. It's so great!
Oh I love your prediction videos! X Sian x
as someone who knows very little of tudor history i still loved, loved "wolf hall" and "bring up the bodies"..i read them as i read any fiction taking the characters and events as presented in the stories.
Maybe I wasn't reading it as closely as I should have been, but I am reading Wolf Hall now and LOVING it!
@@EricKarlAnderson oh good...i was so sorry you were missing it...
Ducks, Newbury is one of my favourite books of last year and one of my favourite books ever. I still think of it and certain things remind me about it.
I'm glad you agree! I know some people complain it's repetative but there is SO much to think about and discuss concerning it. I'm glad you love it as much as I did.
@@EricKarlAnderson The repetitions were necessary and, I dare say, intentional - proof of domestic/motherhood drudgery. They also were needed to show the mental loops she was experiencing. And the novels rhythm - that was something special. I know, it's art, it's subjective, but I'll defend this novel to death. :-)
@@bianquita1 YES!
Great video-thoughtful consideration!
Thanks for watching! 📚
Another day, another comment.
I so enjoyed this video that I then spent three hours or so, over the course of a couple of evenings, watching your discussions with Anna about the 2019 prize, and I was disappointed that there doesn't seem to be a video in which you react to and talk about the winner.
If there is such a video, can you please link me to it? Or if there's not, would it be possible for you to devote a bit of time to last year's winner in your next discussion with Anna about the upcoming 2020 prize?
Thank you in advance. :o)
P.S. I've only just recently stumbled upon your channel and am really appreciating your insightful criticism, as well as your choice in literature.
Hi Christina, thanks so much and glad you've enjoyed my discussions with Anna. Last year I was randomly away in Latvia when the winner was announced so I didn't get to go to the ceremony or discuss it with Anna. In the middle of this video about my trip ua-cam.com/video/J5HHP5AfG1k/v-deo.html I watch the winner's announcement on live stream and react to it. I'm sure we'll definitely talk about past winners at some point - especially as there will be lots of discussion around them for the prize's 25th anniversary.
Was the Thomas Cromwell biography you read any good? I was thinking of reading something like that before reading Wolf Hall. Excellent predictions as always! I’m so excited for the list!
To be honest, the Cromwell bio was very dreary to read. Or at least I found it really tedious, but now that I've started Wolf Hall I am finding all that background info helpful. To be honest, you'd probably do just as well stopping your reading of Wolf Hall now and then to look up different Tudor people on Wikipedia as I'm still having to do that a bit now that I'm reading Mantel's book.
you guys just exploded my tbr!
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Great video! I love hearing you two talking about books. :)
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Just one question: IS ANNA COMING BACK TO UA-cam??? ;)
Excellent tee shirt Eric !
Thank you! 💁♂️
I loved The Confessions of Frannie Langton 📚FranKissStein 📚The Dutch House 📚My unpopular opinion is that Girl, Woman, Other was overhyped and not that great 😞🧐
The Doll Factory was very gothic and good 📚Highly recommend reading Maggie O’Farrells novels
Eric, I recommend Wolf Hall on audio.
Thanks! I'm on it! Listening to it now and really enjoying it. 👍
I really enjoy your videos with Anna! (Am heading off to follow her as well). My bookishness is on Instagram where I take hideously boring photos but enjoy interacting with so many bookish ppl who do buddy reads there, and with whom I have daily comversations under my bookish name Phillybookfairy - so if i join you there, that is me sans name and pic. So many great sounding books and recommendations! Im curious about the long list and will try to read at least the ones that draw me in the most. i find that for me theres not enough time between long and short list to winner and it can be frustrating to get copies from library waits etc sooo frustrating!!! I do have FranKissStein and The Testaments so Ill probably read both of them later this month or next. Heavens sounded really good, and despite the contraversy Ill still read American Dirt. One moving story that can open a thousand conversations and highlight a serious plight shouldnt be banned or should i say "shunned" - instead used as a talking point. ahhhhh I could go but Id like to read it first and hear more opinions before I can truly decide for myself. anyhow, the other story Domenica sounds like a good comparison so ill make sure to read that as well! Great video and I love Annas hair! Cheers!
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Psst... I've heard from the publisher they have submitted it so 🤞🤞🤞
I thought this is Emma Stone for a moment.
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Unprofessional Critic The one on the left or the one on the right? 😜
@@shawnbreathesbooks the big eyed red haired one.😂
I WILL TAKE THIS!!!
Booker int predictions pls!!
I'm not sure I'm aware enough about all the potentials for this to make a predictions list. Though I hope The Memory Police by Ogawa and Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor will be on it.
Oooo. Good to hear mate. Love ya work.
I don't see how a Mexican middle-class family who tries to escape violence is the same as a Dominican child-bride who tries to integrate American society against her abusive husband's wishes. I guess because we assume they both speak Spanish as their mother tongue? AFAIK, though, Angie Cruz wasn't a Dominican child-bride; she was born in America, and I'd say going to LaGuardia High School is a bit different from not being allowed to learn English by your abusive husband. Well, thanks for looking up a book by a random anglophone brown author, anyway.
This response is really missing the point. The criticism of American Dirt is vast and valid. Dominicana was inspired by Angie Cruz's family and community story of immigration from DR. But thanks for sharing....
@@Nickabod79 I'm not talking of American Dirt, I'm talking of the attitude of suposedly woke people, thinking all books by brown people are interchangeable. And #OwnVoices doesn't mean "It's a story I imagine people from my parents' country living", it means it's a story you've lived and therefore are specially well-equipped to tell.
If an autistic person writes about an autistic character, it is #OwnVoices. If the parent of an autistic kid writes the story of an autistic kid, not only it isn't #OwnVoices, but it's terribly problematic.
@@basketca2 someone doesn't have to have an exact experience for it to be an #ownvoices piece. Have you even heard Cruz talk about her process? I'm guessing not. It seems like you just have an ax to grind against her in addition to the people in this video. Also, I'm an actually disabled person who writes disabled characters. I don't need your 101 level commentary. I live it.
@@Nickabod79 It needs to be YOUR experience to be #OwnVoices. Manolete, si no sabes torear, ¿para qué te metes? No voy a oír tonterías y a fingir que son verdades, y evidentemente en este tema tanto uno como otro no saben de lo que hablan, y tú tienes la lengua bien dentro de su culo.
Angie Cruz ha escrito un libro de ficción sobre una vida imaginada, no sobre su experiencia. Ergo, es una obra de ficción como cualquier otra. Eso no tiene por qué tener nada de malo, pero si Anna lo vende como #OwnVoices, miente.
Y aquí discapacitados somos muchos, así que no veo por qué te piensas que gritarlo significa otra cosa aparte de que pretendes usarlo como razón de que tu opinión es la verdad. Madura un poco, niño.