Charts showing gender analysis for British award finalists
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The data for the BSFA categories is currently incomplete on ISFDB - nothing
for the awards presented in 2019 has been added as of mid-September 2019,
and some of the earlier years only have a winner recorded, with no other
finalists. The latter may well make the gender look worse than it was in
reality for those years. (I did have a look for the missing finalists when
I was building
the
chart for Goodreads ratings,
but most of that information doesn't seem to be discoverable via Google.)
British Science Fiction Award
Best Novel
Best Short Fiction
Best Non-Fiction
British Fantasy Award
August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel
August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) / Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Best Novella
Best Short Fiction
Best Short Story
Arthur C. Clarke Award - Best Science Fiction Novel
Something that I don't think has been previously noted is that - assuming
these statistics are correct - there has never been a year when the Clarke
shortlist has been less than 50% male.
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