Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction winner Rachel Clarke has said that the idea of literature written by artificial intelligence is the “emptiest, most vacuous, object imaginable” – and warned that the challenge lies in distinguishing which works have used it.
Author and NHS doctor Clarke, who is delivering the annual State of the Nation Lecture at Cambridge Literary Festival, won the Women’s Prize last year for The Story of a Heart – the story of how one child received a heart transplant from another. Her memoir about working in the NHS at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Breathtaking, was adapted into a drama for ITV in 2024.
