"Women aren't interesting.Women don't count," claimed novelist Nicola Griffith as she reviewed the winners of every major literary award given in the last 15years. The author published the findings in her personal blog, saying that the books that deal with women do not often win awards from prestigious award-giving bodies.

"When women win literary awards for fiction it's usually for writing from a male perspective and/or about men," Griffith wrote. "The more prestigious the award, the more likely the subject of the narrative will be male."

Griffith analyzed the winners of Pulitzer Prize, Man Booker Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics' Circle Award, Hugo Award, and Newbery Medal for the last 15 years. "I've been counting, subconsciously then consciously, for 20 years when I was first published and started to see how skewed the playing field was," the novelist told Fusion.

Among the award-giving bodies Griffith analyzed, the most prestigious of all is the Pulitzer Prize, wherein none of the 15 winners have been written from the point of view of women. Meanwhile, books about women have fared better, winning five Newbery medals. A Newbery medal is awarded to books written for younger audiences. It also happens to be the least prestigious in Griffith's list.

"It's hard to escape the conclusion that, when it comes to literary prizes, the more prestigious, influential and financially remunerative the award, the less likely the winner is to write about grown women," Griffith concluded. "Either this means that women writers are self-censoring, or those who judge literary worthiness find women frightening, distasteful, or boring. Certainly the results argue for women's perspectives being considered uninteresting or unworthy. Women seem to have literary cooties," she added.

Fusion further reports the possibility of Griffith turning her findings into a full-blown study. "I'm looking for help in expanding it, checking it, correcting it, that I'm more into solutions than blame," the author said.

VIDA is a group of women that checks book-related issues including awards against gender biases. "VIDA has shown that there are willing hands out there. Because that's what we need: many hands. If I were Empress of the Universe, we would assemble masses of data from many awards in many genres and categories," Griffith told Fusion. She continued, "We would extend the reach to earlier in process: who writes about what; who reads about what; how many books by whom about what are published; how they sell; what kind of books are submitted for review/awards; the longlists, the shortlists...Everything."

In her follow-up blog post, Griffith also proposed a solution to the situation. The author is asking more hands to help in gathering data.

"But the key point is that the publishing gender ecosystem can be fixed.3 And it needs to be fixed. Literature matters," Griffith said. "If women's perspectives aren't folded into the mix, attitudes don't move with the whole human race-just half of it."