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Who Are the Real Winners of Literary Prizes? - Coggle Diagram
Who Are the Real Winners of Literary Prizes?
What does 'winning' actually look like?
Is it winning money?
Is it gaining a good reputation?
Is it exerting influence and shaping culture?
Is it communicating a message?
Are all literary prizes the same?
What is the purpose of literary prizes? Each has a different criteria and are judged differently, so wouldn't they also benefit different people in other ways?
When one prize disproportionately benefits a certain group of people, we often see a counter-prize set up
Have literary prizes always been the same?
What different forms have prizes taken in the past, and who has benefitted from them?
What groups of people have we discussed in the classes, and how have they benefited (or lost out) because of prizes?
Readers
Authors
Publisers
The prize committee
Sponsors
People from different races, genders, and class
Go through each week of the course, and make notes as to the people we've talked about and how they may have won or lost.
Week 3
Week 4
Week 2
Week 5
Week 1
Who are the losers when it comes to literary prizes?
How can a
prize
be good or bad? Surely it's the people who control it.