Salman Rushdie describes Women's Prize for Fiction as a 'marketing tool' and says it puts women in a 'ghetto'
Author Sir Salman Rushdie has dismissed the Women's Prize For Fiction as a "marketing tool".
The Man Booker Prize winner, 70, said that an award specifically for female authors was "unnecessary" and puts them in a "ghetto".
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