My favourite female authors.

Hello all, in honour of International Women's Day earlier this month, I have decided to reveal who my favourite women authors are.




1: Bernardine Evaristo.

I find her so captivating as an author. I studied her 2019 novel Girl, Woman, Other for university and I immediately fell in love with it. I love her storytelling and her handling of critical or sensitive issues. Evaristo does not run away from the problems that some womxn face. Instead she highlights it as if to let society know 'we have a problem'. Her fiction just works. Is it any wander she jointly won the booker prize in 2019 for Girl, Woman, Other.


2: Margaret Atwood.

I love reading something by Margaret Atwood. The way she brings worlds and characters to life is rather magical. She will create a stark vision of the future, without making it enjoyable. Her novel The Testaments (2019) is my second favourite novel and it also jointly won the Booker prize in 2019 with Evaristo's Girl, Woman, Other (2019).


3: Zadie Smith.

Ever since I read Zadie Smith's debut novel White Teeth (2000) I fell in love with her work as a writer. Reading her second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), I continued to love her work. I think there is just something about her!


4: Alice Walker.

The main reason Alice Walker is one of my favourite female authors is because of her 1982 novel The Colour Purple. That novel was a pure joy to me when I read it. Simply one of the best novels ever written by an author whose craft is so clever.


5: Jackie Kay.

For me, I applaud Jackie Kay. Writing a novel where a person lives his life as a man but was AFAB (Assigned Female at Birth) and having his tale told in the aftermath of his death... Add to this, the rage and grief of the family with the blatant transphobia from various characters and I just love what she told here with Trumpet (1988). I think Trans people do not get their acknowledgment often enough in popular, mainstream fiction. I am not saying they do not at all, just I find it minimal. Ask yourself how many novels you can name that have a prominent transgender character in them...


Who are your favourite women authors? Let me know in the comments.


Until next time,


Thomas.

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