VOTES FOR WOMEN!

The Women’s Bookshop celebrated its 21st Birthday with a party in their Ponsonby, Auckland shop to announce the winners of the Fifty-Fifty Women survey – the top 50 women writers of the last 50 years, voted by thousand of NZ readers nationwide.

Customers, friends, publishers & supporters crowded into the shop for wine, delicious food, & lots of discussion as the Top 50 were revealed. There was much hilarity as owner Carole Beu (pic above) gave away gift books and mugs to many of those present – for a variety of, sometimes dubious, reasons!
 

 Photo right - Marnie Prickett, who along with Tanya Gribben, entered thousands of votes onto the spreadsheet, reveals the WINNERS of the 50/50 Women Survey

For the full list of the Top 50 Women, go to www.womensbookshop.co.nz
And be sure to buy next week’s NZ Listener – the Fifty-Fifty Women survey will be the main story in the Arts & Books section.