She was awarded an MBE in 2013 and has sold millions of books worldwide. The author's condemnation of gendered book covers comes more than a week after she joined leading writers including Stephen Fry, crime author Val McDermid and Paula Hawkins urging the former chancellor Sajid Javid to remove the 20 per cent VAT on ebooks and audiobooks.Īlongside her writing, Joanne continues to dedicate much of her time to charity work, helping to fight sleeping sickness in the Congo and working with Plan UK to bring about a fairer society for girls across the world. Why then are books about these things being coded as exclusively female?' Men enjoy comfort, and friendship, and food. Pictured: Lionel Shriver's We Need To Talk About Kevin (left) and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (right) The author said when a male protagonist featured in the work of female writers, the designs used by illustrators reinforced the notion that men were more 'more relevant' than stories about women.
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