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Anthony Horowitz admits he refused to write his Bond novels for 'a modern audience' as he wades into contentious sensitivity row that saw Roald Dahl 's beloved books rewritten to 'remove' offensive language
The 69-year-old best-selling British author was asked by the Ian Fleming estate to write three continuation books of the James Bond books With a Mind to Kill, Trigger Mortis and Forever and a Day.
Anthony Horowitz has waded in on the sensitivity row which saw Roald Dahl ’s books rewritten to remove ‘offensive’ language and said he won’t have ‘people telling me what I have to do’ Horowitz’s own publishing company, Puffin, hired sensitivity readers to rewrite chunks of Dahl’s text and made extensive changes across the Matilda author’s work to make sure the books could be ‘ continued to be enjoyed by all today ’. Speaking at the Hay Literature Festival on Thursday, Horowitz waded in on the controversial row and said: ‘My position on this is very simple, it’s that I totally refute the need for what I think is a bad idea to always try to cut out.
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