Booker Winner Rips on Potter Series

Posted on July 20, 2003

Author AS Byatt, a winner of the Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary prize, wrote in the New York Times that the latest Harry Potter novel by J.K. Rowling is "written for people whose imaginative lives are confined to TV cartoons, and the exaggerated (more exciting, not threatening) mirror-worlds of soaps, reality TV and celebrity gossip." She also said the book lacked the seriousness found in other great children's writing. The BBC reported that Byatt has been called a snob by some following her New York Times editorial.

Source: BBC