Winner of the Orange Fiction Prize ‘is a hermaphrodite’ claim
The literary world is in a state of shock after claims that this year’s winner of the women only Orange Prize for Fiction is a hermaphrodite.
In a controversy echoing the recent row surrounding the gender of South African 800m gold medal winner Caster Semenya, literary pundits are fiercely divided over whether Ethel Murgatroyd, whose novel ‘Hard’ won this year’s prize, is really a woman and should have been disqualified from the competition.
Posted: Sep 18th, 2009
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