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Late
British writer of children's novels Enid Blyton has been included in
Amazon's list of best-selling authors along with J.K. Rowling, Terry
Pratchett and Dan Brown. Though Blyton belongs to the past decade, her
books have remained as popular as ever, and her entry into the Top 10
was based on sales at amazon.co.uk, the online retailer. Her stories,
including the Famous Five and Noddy series, are still
popular and bought by parents and grandparents, who remember the books
fondly from their own childhoods. "Enid Blyton was a prolific
author and many people who enjoyed her books as children will now be
buying those books for children of their own," the Telegraph
quoted Amy Worth, head of books buying at Amazon.co.uk, as saying.
"It goes to show that great books never go out of fashion,"
she added. Blyton's work is currently undergoing something of a
revival, with a BBC drama chronicling her life and the Famous Five
being reborn as a cartoon. Documents released by the BBC archive last
month revealed that she was banned from the corporation for nearly 30
years because executives thought her books lacked "literary
value" and were no more than "competently written."
However, the stories have sold more than 600 million copies
worldwide. Blyton died in 1968 and is one of only two dead authors on
the Amazon list. The other is William Shakespeare. Making the top of
the list was Brit author Rowling with the Harry Potter books, and
second was Stephenie Meyer, another female writer who created a
literary phenomenon with the Twilight series. Julia Donaldson, creator
of The Gruffalo, was third, and Jamie Oliver, the only chef to
make the list, came in fourth. Dan Brown came in sixth with his book The
Da Vinci Code, and Blyton came in seventh. Other writers in the
top 10 were Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels, and
Alexander McCall Smith, creator of the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
— ANI
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Author
of Famous Five series Enid Blyton makes it to 2009 list of
best-selling writers, along with J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown