Who’s your favourite author? Maybe Hemingway, Hardy, Tolstoy, or Dickens? Now for a second question: who’s your favourite author who is not a white man?
For many people, the second question is much harder to answer than the first. And that’s not an accident: historically, the literary canon has been dominated by white men, and the contemporary literary landscape is skewed both white and male.
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