Author Topic: JK Rowling voted greatest living British writer (Read 1511 times)

shadowstar · « **on:** June 09, 2006, 06:30:06 PM »

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LONDON (Reuters) - JK Rowling was voted the greatest living British writer in a survey published Thursday.

The Harry Potter creator whose stories of the young wizard have sold over 300 million copies worldwide received nearly three times as many votes as Discworld author Terry Pratchett in second place.

Third in The Book Magazine poll was Ian McEwan, author of titles including "Amsterdam" and "Atonement," followed by "Satanic Verses" and "Midnight's Children" author Salman Rushdie.

Kazuo Ishiguro, who was awarded the OBE in 1995 for services to literature was fifth and Philip Pullman, author of "Northern Lights" was sixth. Nick Hornby, whose most recent novel "A Long Way Down" was short-listed for the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award was eighth followed by AS Byatt.

Jonathan Coe was joint tenth with spy novelist John Le Carr.

The magazine suggested 45 authors' names and its readers were invited to vote online

Mayo · « **Reply #1 on:** June 09, 2006, 08:52:05 PM »

All right! Good job, Jo! ^^

tivx · « **Reply #2 on:** June 09, 2006, 09:26:57 PM »

oh man that's awesome! love the HP books, but on the last one made it seem like she was running out of ideas

aedon · « **Reply #3 on:** June 09, 2006, 09:50:46 PM »

Kazuo Ishiguro is a British writer? lol

But seriously, JK can buy herself all prizes in the world she wants

light_hikari · « **Reply #4 on:** June 09, 2006, 10:03:47 PM »

Kay yeah, love HP but Terry Prattchet is the better writer for sure. JK's good at storytelling, not writing ._.

JFC · « **Reply #5 on:** June 10, 2006, 11:39:10 PM »

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The magazine suggested 45 authors' names and its readers were invited to vote online.

So the votes were done by the readers of a British Magazine. Yeah...THAT makes it totally legit. [/sarcasm]

Go to fuckin' Oxford, ask the members of the Literature Department there to choose the greatest writer. THAT result will be valid. At the very least it will be decided by people who actually KNOW about what makes good literature.

Masda_P · « **Reply #6 on:** June 11, 2006, 09:51:07 AM »

Sugoi! I think she's richer than queen isn't she? How she can writes a lot of thick book. haha

Kei · « **Reply #7 on:** June 11, 2006, 09:07:11 PM »

Quote from: aedon

Kazuo Ishiguro is a British writer? lol

Yeah, he's a naturalised Limey.

I guess this is an okay result. I mean, Douglas Adams is dead so I guess it didn't really matter who won it.