Sophie Hannah: ‘There are people who think a crime novel can’t be proper literature… that’s a shame for them’
The author of the Observer’s Christmas short story on snobbery towards genre fiction, bringing Hercule Poirot back from the dead and how Mother Goose got her hooked on rhyme
It is my cherished belief that crime writing — and cowboy writing and romance writing — are all writing. And that crime fiction et al — fiction. Ditto literature.
ReplyDeleteAs I tweet daily about crime fiction in my Twitter-guise as NovelCrimes, I apply the same standards as I do when writing critically about any other literary subject.
—Jules