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Originally Posted by TGS
Perhaps one should be guided by the recipients of such awards as to whether it is insulting. Not being a woman and not being a writer I wouldn't really know whether it is insulting or not, but I have not heard of the winner of the Orange Prize turning it down because she felt insulted on the grounds that the prize was only open to women.
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Personally I could take a fair amount of insult for £30,000
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