Canadian author Naomi Klein has won the inaugural Women’s Prize for Non Fiction. Her book, Doppelganger, centres around a mix up which has plagued her for years: being mistaken for Naomi Wolf, the controversial author and Right-wing conspiracy theorist.
In her acceptance speech, Klein told the audience that someone had been going around London tearing down posters with her face on them. “The weird thing was I didn’t know what had angered them, I didn’t know if it was what I had written about vaccine misinformation, what I had written about Zionism, climate change or fossil free books,” she said, thanking the Women’s Prize for “not shying away from controversy”.
