British Author, Joanne Harris, Advocates for more Investment in Libraries and Arts

Joanne Harris, an English author has called on  the government to invest more money in libraries and the arts after spotting the literary deficit in the UK. She made the call while expressing her heartfelt appreciation on the receipt of an OBE for services to literature from the Prince of Wales (William) at a Windsor Castle investiture.

The Chocolat author also praised William and the Queen Consort for championing causes that promote literacy in the UK adding that one in 10 people were functionally illiterate and there was less and less funding going to the arts, libraries and education. Hence, arts and the world of literature needed all the attention they could get.

This call came after novelist Anthony Horowitz, who has written more than 40 books including the Alex Rider teenage spy series, called for a library in every school after he picked up a CBE in November 2022.