Now, the authors of the reading week are just as often women and men, promises the CPNB

The CPNB Foundation, organizer of the Book Week, will use a quota of women in the coming years to choose the authors of the Book Week gift and assignment. Half of this expense must be written by women, half by men. Two men or two women may still be interviewed in one year, but overall the gender division must be the same over the next five years.

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This is the result of discussions between the promoter of the CPNB book and the authors of a petition on the choice of two male authors, Jan Siebelink and Murat. Isik, for the donation and the essay of the week of reading in 2019. The combination of the two writers and the theme "The mother, the wife" were found unimaginable and a large group of writers and d & # 39; Writers fell on the chest. Nearly 300 people from the book industry signed an open letter in mid-June NRC in which they asked the CPNB to come up with a package "in which men and women in essays, poems and novels talk about mothers and motherhood. "According to the CPNB, the signatories of the petition" agreed with us that the theme and the authors of 2019 should not be changed. "

The distribution of male and female writers has been uneven for years: the last twenty years this prestigious mission to seventeen men and three women.In the last twenty regular tests of the Book Week, the author was in 16 cases a man, in four cases a woman

With the approach of Book Week 2019, letter writers and the CPNB will meet more often.