Robert Galbraith: Last News

J.K. Rowling denied her new novel about a character being persecuted by online personas has anything to do with her "own experience" following the backlash she faced after sharing her views on gender, which were deemed transphobic by LGBTQ+ advocates and multiple stars from the "Harry Potter" franchise. In an online question and answer forum posted online for "The Ink Black Heart," which Rowling wrote under her pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the author explained that the concept of the book came long before she was criticized for her views.  "I have never created a book – and this book certainly isn’t created from my own experience – you know, with a view to talking about my own life," she wrote online.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Discovery and the BBC have been accused of double standards on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) after both organizations have stood by J.K. Rowling amid a hardening in her transgender rights rhetoric.

Tom Burke is requesting media training from the BBC.

Tom Burke says he requested media training from the BBC to help him handle questions about J.K Rowling’s strident views on transgender rights.

Daniel Radcliffe has broken his silence on J.K Rowling's recent comments criticising the Harry Potter star and his co-stars.

Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are hard at work on the upcoming season of their BBC series Strike!

Stephen King has faced some criticism after promoting one of J.K. Rowling’s books.On Thursday (October 26), the author praised The Running Grave by Rowling, written under her crime fiction pseudonym Robert Galbraith.“This is J.K. Rowling at her best, recalling the sheer readability of the Harry Potter books, but much darker,” King wrote on X.

Humza Yousaf is under pressure over the shocking case of a 10-year-old boy who has waited years for mental health treatment to start.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC appears unmoved by the online clamor to cancel JK Rowling over her views on transgender rights.

If you’re still having trouble with the ethical struggle of separating the art from the artist, fret no longer! J.K. Rowling has made it easy for whatever fans she has left by REMOVING THE LINE BETWEEN REAL LIFE AND FICTION.

Zack Sharf J.K. Rowling recently told Graham Norton that her new novel, “The Ink Black Heart,” is not based on her own experience being slammed as transphobic despite featuring a character who finds herself in a similar social media firestorm (via Rolling Stone). The new book, published under Rowling’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith, is part of Rowling’s “Cormoran Strike” crime thriller series and includes a character named Edie Ledwell, a “creator of a popular YouTube cartoon who sees internet trolls and her own fandom turn on her after the cartoon was criticized as being racist and ableist, as well as transphobic for a bit about a hermaphrodite worm.” As reported by Rolling Stone, the character in the novel is “doxxed with photos of her home plastered on the internet, subjected to death and rape threats for having an opinion, and is ultimately found stabbed to death in a cemetery. The book takes a clear aim at ‘Social Justice Warriors’ and suggests that Ledwell was a victim of a masterfully plotted, politically fueled hate campaign against her.”

Harry Potter series and now pens the Cormoran Strike detective novels under the pen name Robert Galbraith, has incorporated a new element into her latest installment than anyone familiar with her recent work will recognize: internet backlash.Rowling has been one of the most vocal and visible, let's say, , lending her money and her celebrity to groups that make the world less safe for trans people, and in the process receiving death and rape threats herself. A lose-lose situation for all.

“The Ink Black Heart” — written by the “Harry Potter” author under her pen name Robert Galbraith — was released on Tuesday, and is the sixth book in her “Cormoran Strike” series. The crime thriller revolves around a popular YouTube creator named Edie Lowell, who is “canceled” by “social justice warriors” amid accusations that she is racist, ableist and transphobic.

J.K. Rowling has insisted her new book isn’t about her own experiences despite featuring a character who is persecuted for having transphobic views.

J.K. Rowling has written a new book about a character being persecuted for transphobic views.The announcement of the book comes after previous comments from the Harry Potter author, in which she mocked an article with the phrase “people who menstruate” in its headline and published a 3,000-word essay titled JK Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues, resulted in a significant backlash from the trans community and beyond.Among those to criticise Rowling were Harry Potter stars Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.

JK Rowling’s new book centres around online trolls and the murder of a writer and creative.Since the massive success of Harry Potter, Rowling has branched out into the crime genre, where she writes her Cormoran Strike novels under the name Robert Galbraith.The author has made headlines more for her views on trans people than her writing in recent years, however the spotlight is on Rowling’s work again as she prepares to release a new novel.The Ink Black Heart is the sixth in the Strike series, and sees detective Robin Ellacott and Strike himself team up to solve the murder of an artist.It follows the creator of a popular YouTube cartoon whose fandom turns against her as they claim the series is racist and transphobic, according to Rolling Stone.The artist begins receiving rape and death threats from an anonymous online account, and comes to the detective for help – but is later found dead in Highgate Ceremony, where her cartoon is set.Rowling is no stranger herself to being on the receiving end of vitriol online – the author has been in the middle of multiple Twitter spats in recent years, often due to her ‘gender-critical’ views.Earlier this year, the writer revealed she was working with police after a Twitter user seemingly sent her a death threat following the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie in New York.She shared screenshots of his account and posts where he had responded to her tweet about the stabbing to tell her ‘you’re next.’Rowling then confirmed: ‘To all sending supportive messages: thank you.

It was her call. J.K. Rowling said she was not intentionally excluded from HBO Max’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special earlier this year.

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Harry Potter author, who began publishing her crime novels under the name Robert Galbraith in 2013, has faced claims that she took her pen name from the psychiatrist.

J.K. Rowling is in hot water once again.

JK Rowling has become embroiled in another row over transgender rights - this time over the release of her latest book. The Harry Potter author has been accused of transphobia for the plot of Troubled Blood, which is written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith and is the latest in the Strike series.