With more
than 400 libraries under threat of closure due to budget cuts, author Maggie Gee has vowed not to give up the fight to save
them.
The
63-year-old, who was the first female chair of the Royal Society of Literature
and was short-listed for the 2003 Orange Prize for her seventh novel, The White
Family, was awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours list.
Dr Gee
who is a member of the Brent SOS libraries campaign said: "Libraries
matter because they are the seedbed of literature. They are where people read
our books, it's where children find out they can read."
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