Top of the list is Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel 'The Handmaid's Tale', published in 1985. Photo: AFP
From George Sand to Colette to J.K. Rowling: for centuries, female writers have felt compelled to use pseudonyms to encourage men to read their works.
And for good reason; men still have difficulty opening up to literature written by women - a situation that the Women's Prize for Fiction hopes to remedy.
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