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Late Author Enid Blyton Voted UK's Best-Loved Writer

Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 02:17PM
 Posted by Registered CommenterJulie-Ann

Good writing does not disappear once the sometimes fickle trend for the author leaves, maintaining its test of quality over a good many years. Such is  UK's most-beloved late writer, Enid Blyton, who still provides children with a safe world where "good means good" and "bad means bad", saying that any critic over the age of 12 had no opinion that meant anything to her. Selling more than 500 million books, she is known for her Famous Five Series and the Noddy books.


Winning at the top of the list of 50 for the UK's most beloved writers, Blyton was followed behind with Ronald Dahl in second and JK Rowling in third, Jane Austen fourth, Shakespeare fifth, Charles Dickens sixth, with Tolkien, Agatha Christie, Stephen King, and Beatrix Potter finishing the top 10 in the survey for the Costa Book Awards of 2,000 writers.

 


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