The Women’s Prize 2024 Winners Reaction
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- They’re here! The dual winners of the 2024 Women’s Prizes. I’ll talk about the winners for both nonfiction and fiction as well as the rest of the shortlists. Expand for more information. 👇
Links 💻
The Women’s Prize Fiction Site: www.womensprize.com/prizes/wo...
The Women’s Prize Nonfiction Site: www.womensprize.com/prizes/wo...
Watch the Announcements and Speeches: • The Women's Prize Awards
Further Viewing 🎥
My Women’s Prize for Fiction Shortlist Reaction: • Women’s Prize for Fict...
My Women’s Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist Reaction: • Women’s Prize for Nonf...
My Carol Shields Prize Shortlist Reaction: • The Carol Shields Priz...
Last Year’s Winner Reaction: • Women’s Prize for Fict...
Time Stamp ⏰
Jump to the Fiction Winner: 14:43
The Winners 🥇
Brotherless Night, V.V. Ganeshananthan: bookshop.org/a/99775/97808129...
Doppelgänger, Naomi Klein: bookshop.org/a/99775/97803746...
- Alternate link to pre-order the paperback (out in September): bookshop.org/a/99775/97812503...
The Fiction Shortlist 🥈
The Wren, The Wren, Anne Enright: bookshop.org/a/99775/97813240...
Restless Dolly Maunder, Kate Grenville: bookshop.org/a/99775/97818053...
Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad: bookshop.org/a/99775/97808021...
Soldier Sailor, Claire Kilroy: bookshop.org/a/99775/97816680...
River East, River West, Aube Rey Lescure: bookshop.org/a/99775/97800632...
The Nonfiction Shortlist 🥈
All That She Carried, Tiya Miles: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819848...
Code Dependent, Madhumita Murgia: bookshop.org/a/99775/97812508...
A Flat Place, Noreen Masud: bookshop.org/a/99775/97816858...
Thunderclap, Laura Cumming: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819821...
How to Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair: bookshop.org/a/99775/97819821...
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Just chiming in to comment that I really liked the audio for How to Say Babylon. I think it added so much to hear the story in her beautiful voice and to have the parts in Patois accurately represented. I couldn't always understand them, but I think I got the gist more than I would have reading in print. (fwiw, those parts are minimal and not fully understanding them was not a problem.) I just felt so drawn in by Safiya herself telling her story.
Unrelated -- THANK YOU for all your enthusiasm for The Great Believers! I just finished it and it has been awhile since I loved a book like that. I couldn't put it down. Your love for it kept it from being lost and forgotten on my too-long tbr and I'm so grateful for that!
When I heard that sawing I thought that maybe Teddy had a cold--thanks for clearing that up. Really good video.
😂 😂
I really enjoyed both authors' acceptance speeches. I haven't yet read either winner but they're on my (absurdly long) list.
I get dizzy thinking about how long my list is.
I’ve read both and totally understand them being chosen. Brotherless Night was my fiction choice - it’s amazing! My choice for non fiction would have been How to Say Babylon….but Doppelgänger was definitely deserving too.
I am so with you! No way can I read Doppelgänger, my anxiety rose just hearing you read the description . Thanks for a great video always😊 just got the wren, the wren from my library today. Will let you and all know what I think!
❤ thumbnail pic was not a spoiler for me. I prefer pics! Keep on keepin’ on!❤
Would love a meet and greet with your dog!!!
Agree that what the judges consider the best book should win regardless of what it has done in other prizes. If it has made a shortlist judge by merit.
I was pulling for How to Say Babylon, but I thought all of the books were amazing, so I would have been happy with any of them. Brotherless Night was my pick, but anything other than Restless Dolly Maunder would have worked for me.
I picked up doppelgänger because of your prediction! Her last chapter about Gaza/Israel - especially coming from a Jewish woman - really solidified this as a 5 star read for me.
That's good to know--thanks!
That sawing sound is so ubiquitous in my neighborhood that I didn't realize it was coming from your video until you mentioned it.
I super slacked on reading the list year - only read The Wren, The Wren 😳, but still dig the content ( and the snoring) ! 📚 🪱 💚
Read Thunderclap and really enjoyed it, but it was a very niche subject. Really enjoyed Babylon also, but not a top book for me. Doppelganger sounds interesting; maybe when it's out in paperback.
I'm currently reading Doppelganger right now and it isn't really triggering my anxiety. Of course, I'm not finished with that, so I can't say that with certainty. I will say that eye-reading it was not working for me as I couldn't really settle in with it, so I had to switch to audio, which has been working. I'm not sure if that is because of the material or my reaction to it.
I feel like if I read it, audio is probably the only way I would be able. Thanks for the feedback on it!
FYI, sorry to tell you this, but Eric Karl Anderson mentioned he heard that during the Q&A session the night before the prize ceremony, Claire Kilroy commented that she thought it was best for all children to be raised by a man and a woman. Though it may be a misinterpretation.
I don't know the context of her comment, but from having read the book, I'm inclined to think she meant that it takes two to raise a child and that it is important for fathers to be involved parents. It would be super disappointing if it was meant differently. 😕
I have read only 2 of the books on the shortlist....Liked both.... Brotherless night and Soldier sailor but brotherless surely stands out 😊
I'm hoping to catch up to both of those. We'll see what I actually get around to!
@@SupposedlyFun Whenever it is I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did....
@@neetupd8510 Thanks! Me too.
I hear you on stress levels, but Doppelganger was an "aha!" experience for me. It seeks to explain something that has really baffled me, how people who have been solidly on the left side of politics are suddenly espousing right wing conspiracy theories. Because yes, that's happened in Europe too. It's a bit difficult to follow, in part because she's teasing out answers and not always finding them, and she draws so many lines it is hard for the reader to gather it all together, but it is such an important part of our current political discourse and it is trying to re-frame that discourse. I got it from the library, but I'm considering buying a copy because there are parts I would like to re-read now that I've had a chance to think about it for a while.
I actually think the movie prizes should adopt that ideology. "Emma Stone already won the BAFTA so we're going to give the Academy Award to someone else, equally deserving." 🤷♀
I have both of the winners on hold!
I hope they become available for you quickly!
@@SupposedlyFun Libby ya know
I have nothing but praise for “How to Say Babylon.”
You got the winner for Nonfiction and I got the winner for Fiction. You should read Brotherless Night
I look forward to eventually getting to it, but my list is so long at this point. And there are more book prizes coming--and more books!
Thumbnail spoiler?! Tsk tsk tsk
Omg, came here to say the same! No, no , Greg!!
Yay! It’s been such an anticlimactic Women’s Prize announcement today. I know that I’ll usually need to wait a bit for your reaction (because work 😕), but all the folks who usually post right after the announcement were complete no-shows today. Weird. But, because of that, you get to be first! OK, off to the video now.
It does feel like there's been less discourse about the Women's Prize this year. Maybe it will be back? I hope so!
@@SupposedlyFun I was also wondering whether the Women’s Prize might have not given out the winners (with an NDA) beforehand this year. They always do, but maybe they changed their minds this year. 🤷♀️
@@mradcaqbdb It's possible!
As I expected. A worthy winner for sure even if it wasn’t my top pick.
Which one was your top?
@@SupposedlyFun I really liked Enter Ghost
@@KurtAnderson812 Good to know! Thanks.
Add me to the list of people who recommend that you listen to "How to Say Babylon" as the author reads it which authenticates the phrasing of the Jamaican vernacular.
Neither was my choice but I'm not upset Brotherless Night won. Doppleganger, however, I didn't even rank to shortlist as I thought there were better books on the longlist. It was fine.
It feels like this was a solid year for the Women's Prize because they had a lot of great books on the shortlists.
@@SupposedlyFun I did enjoy the non fiction longlist in general. I'm glad they decided to do a prize for non fiction.
You'd like The Wren, the Wren on audio.
Doppleganger is INCREDIBLE. one of the best things I read last year. But yes, may spike the anxiety.
incredibly written - it's far more than the Naomi Wolf/Klein comparison story, that's just a literary device to take you down the rabbit hole that ends up going everywhere from alt-right podcasts to Israel/Gaza.
p.s I did this on audio book (over a series of long walks in nature (lmao) while on long service leave last year) and I highly recommend. Naomi narrates it and it's a good way to digest it.
Slowly but surely listening to doppelgänger. I have a lot of anxiety about what’s going on in our country but I have to keep going and learning/doing whatever I can. Our country and citizens are worth it.
@@donnahumphrey6778I hear ya there. It’s creeping in over here in Australia as well.
Huh. Really expected Babylon to win the nonfiction. Not too surprised about Doppelganger, though the praise I've heard has mostly been second hand accounts from people who didn't like it much themselves or hadn't read it. Ah well. Sounds like a non-controversial winner for their first time around.
I like you.
Thanks so much!
Never read Goldfinch but it was made into one of the worst movies of all time!