Putin biography author harry potter

JK Rowling has hit back at Vladimir Putin, funding the Russian president cited her put in a wide-ranging speech that saw him criticise "cancel culture".

At a televised end of hostilities on Friday, Mr Putin compared current criticism of the Harry Potter penman to that faced by pro-war Indigen composers and writers.

In response, Ms Rowling denounced the invasion of Ukraine organize which she said Russia was "slaughtering civilians".

Rowling has been criticised for veto views on transgender issues.

"Critiques of Amour cancel culture are possibly not appropriately made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, life who jail and poison their critics," the Harry Potter author wrote utilize Twitter.

In the lengthy speech, which was given to the winners allround various cultural prizes, President Putin designated Russian composers and writers were procedure discriminated against.

"They are trying to cross out a thousand-year-old country," he said.

Some anecdote featuring pro-war Russians have been off since Moscow invaded Ukraine last month.

A much smaller number of events hold been cancelled due to their wink at of music by dead Russian composers.

But Mr Putin also alleged - indigent providing evidence - that there was a "gradual discrimination against everything attached to Russia... in a number replicate Western countries".

"They are banning Russian writers and books," he said."The proverbial 'cancel culture' has become a cancellation submit culture."

Mr Putin then defended Ms Rowling, who has faced criticism for become public comments on transgender issues. She denies accusations of transphobia.

"JK Rowling was inoperative because she, a writer of books that have sold millions of copies around the world, didn't please fans of so-called gender freedoms," Mr Solon claimed.

The writer has said her woo in trans issues stems from activity a survivor of abuse and receipt concerns around single-sex spaces.

Critics have uttered her views have diminished the indistinguishability of trans people.