Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author says he has ‘listened to a lot of the criticism ... some of it I understand, some of it I don’t’
Irish author John Boyne: 'If you want the facts of the Holocaust, don’t read a novel, read a non-fiction work.' Photograph: Amanda Benson/BBC Radio 4/PA WireThe Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne has swiped away criticism of his book, saying that learning the facts of the Holocaust should not be done through reading a novel.
“My view on that book, and I have listened to a lot of the criticism, I’ve taken it in, some of it I understand, some of it I don’t understand it, but what I feel about it is that it is a novel, it’s subtitled a fable, a work of fiction with a moral at the centre. “The one thing I would say absolutely in my defence is a whole generation of children has grown up and read that book, and has got some insight into the Holocaust and maybe some of them have gone on and read further about it and got interested in it and that itself, I think it’s something to be proud of.”
Boyne also called the abuse at Terenure “routine” and claimed there was “definitely a culture of violence in the school”.He added: “It’s such a tragedy that that has been lost, really, because of all the things I mean, have gone on over the years and because of the revelations that really have come out since about 2000, in Ireland.
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