Rowling Named Best British Author

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has been voted the best British author that is still alive.

She got three times as many votes as the second-placed writer, Discworld creator Terry Pratchett.

The three authors that came next in the survey from The Book Magazine have all won the most important book award in the UK, the Booker Prize.

Another kids' favourite Philip Pullman - who wrote His Dark Materials - also made the top 10, at number six.

JK Rowling is currently hard at work on the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series.

(SOURCE: CBBC NEWSROUND)