The author Akwaeke Emezi's debut novel, Freshwater, is on the 16-book longlist for the Women's prize for fiction. Emezi identifies as a non-binary trans person and uses they and them as pronouns. The chair of the judging committee: "We're very careful not to Google the authors while judging, so we did not know. But the […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:45AM on March 4, 2019