has hit out at this year's judges of the Man Booker prize for creating what he calls a "false divide" between highbrow literature and accessible books.The judges' focus on "readability" has provoked strong criticism from Motion, a trustee of the prize and former chair of judges, who said it "opens up a completely false divide between what is high end and what is readable, as if they are somehow in opposition to one other, which is patently not true".
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: Booker prize divides quality from readability, says Andrew Motion
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Like his books, [Terry] Pratchett "seems to have become more himself as the years have gone on," [Neil] Gaiman says. They have been friends for almost 30 years. "I like the white-bearded incarnation. If we had a proper old-fashioned queen she would undoubtedly have Terry as her advisor, and then only the right people would have their heads cut off . . . He's funny, generous, tetchy, very moved by a sense of fairness. He would have been a good master criminal I think."
Snuff is the third novel Pratchett has written using voice-recognition technology rather than a keyboard: he is no longer able to touch type, although he can prod words out letter by letter.
from Alison Flood: The Guardian: A life in writing: Terry Pratchett
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