Stella Count Redux – more of the same, I’m afraid
The sterling people behind the Stella Prize* have updated their 2014 analysis of Australian book reviews. This time they examined The Saturday Paper and Sydney Review of Books to discover which authors are reviewed, and who does the reviewing. The answers are, sadly, unsurprising. Or perhaps the results are surprising, given that one might expect…
The Stella Count – Women and Book Reviews
Sad fact: The majority of book reviews in Australian publications are still of books by male writers. The Stella Prize, in conjunction with Books+Publishing, has just released the statistics for the 2013 Stella Count, tracking the relative number of reviews of books by women as compared with books by men in most of the major…