JK Rowling's new novel has just been released and deals with transphobia - a hot topic for her.
However, she denies wanting to settle accounts with her detractors, with whom she has sometimes had violent disputes, including with certain stars of films based on her works.
The Black Ink Heart
(in VO) is the new opus of his series of detective stories written under his pseudonym of Robert Galbraith,
The Investigations of Cormoran Strike
.
In this book, published by Grasset in France, a YouTube cartoonist named Edie Ledwell is taken to task for racism and transphobia by trolls and fans for comments made by one of her animated characters, a hermaphrodite worm. .
Cyberbullying, with "doxing", and threats are violent against the designer until the day she is found stabbed to death in a cemetery.
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In real life, JK Rowling has come under fire for mocking an article containing the phrase 'menstruating' – circumlocution to avoid using the gendered term 'woman' – and posting an essay,
JK Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues
.
She develops the reasons why she speaks out on sex and gender issues.
A test very badly received by the transgender community, in particular.
However, the author assures that her last novel was written before the events "which happened last year" and is not a response to her situation.
"The first draft of the novel was over when certain things happened," she said
on Virgin Radio UK 's
The Graham Norton Radio Show .
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