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Interview #163: COT Signing Report - JD Urbanski, Entry #7

JD Urbanski

My second question was did he believe that genre books deserved to win the major literary prizes such as the Pulitzer or the Booker.

Robert Jordan

Before I had finished Jordan began, “Of course, of course. But you’ll notice that some books that are fantasy are not called fantasy. Doris Lessing writes fantasy. A.S. Byatt writes fantasy. [inaudible name] is fantasy, writes fantasy. The magical realists write fantasy. If you write and deny that you write fantasy then you’re acceptable for a major award and/or the accolades of the critics. If you say that you write fantasy, then you’ve marked yourself as living in the ghetto. So, I write fantasy and I wear my ghetto tattoos proudly.”

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