JK Rowling has been excluded from The Big Jubilee Read, pioneered in part by the BBC, amid ongoing leftist attacks on her transgender views.
“There was a big discussion about JK Rowling,” confessed Nasta, a professor of modern literature, in further comments to the newspaper of record.. A space was cleared for someone equally as good but whose work was not as well-known. There were some very tricky decisions,” she claimed.
The suggestion that Rowling, the most successful British writer of her generation and one of the most successful British authors of all time — behind only Agatha Christie, Barbara Cartland, Enid Blyton, and William Shakespeare in terms of sales — was excluded to make way for lesser-known writers rings somewhat hollow in light of the fact that the likes ofby Margaret Atwood, an extremely well-known work and author beloved by the social justice left, still made the cut.
, an implicitly conservative work by the traditional Catholic author JRR Tolkien, and arguably the most culturally impactful British fiction writing of modern times. Tolkien’s contemporary and friend C.S. Lewis, another unselfconscious Christian, although an Anglican rather than a Roman Catholic, was also excluded from the list.
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