Lee son began his writing career after being sacked by Granada Television author Lee Child, who is behind the series Jack Reacher, has won the novel of the year at the Harrogate crime writing Festival.Child has sold 50 million books in the world and Tom Cruise is playing to Reacher in a big Hollywood movie.
Speaking after the ceremony, he hit "snobbery" about novels.
"Literary writers are seeing many people reading us and relatively few people read them, and they are crossed," child said to BBC News.
Real name Jim Grant, has written 16 books on the former military policeman who roams the United States, the fight against crime and conspiracy.
Recently, the author started writing after being fired from his job as a director of Granada television presentation in 1995, became the first English author to sell a million electronic books to Amazon Kindle reading device.
His book 61 hours won the novel of crime Theakstons old Peculier of the year on the opening night of the festival on Thursday.
They beat other entries shortlisted by Mark Billingham, Bolton SJ, Stuart MacBride, William Ryan and Andrew Taylor.
The veteran author of PD James, 90, was at the event to accept an award for contribution.
The Baroness James, who wrote the Adam Dalgliesh novels detective, said the candidates: "no WINS Booker [award] I'm afraid." But don't worry.
Some fans have complained about Tom Cruise being cast as Jack Reacher"But be entertainment and relief from the problems of the world to millions of people."
This year, the author Peter James, President of the Association of crime writers, told a judge Booker told "hell would freeze as a popular author WINS Booker".
Asked whether fiction was the subject of snobbery of the literary creation, son of Lee said: "definitely there." Not among the mass of readers, obviously, because you are reading to us and not them. "
Child said that he was "delighted" that Tom Cruise would take the role of Jack Reacher in the movie a shot, which begins filming in September.
Some fans have complained that Cruise, which is 5 ft 7in (170 cm) high, is not the right person to play have it 6 feet (195 cm) Reacher.
"It is absolutely impossible to transfer literally on the page to the screen," said the child. "Ironically, to capture the feeling of a book on the screen, you have to change everything."
Continue reading the main storyall authors in the festival is our home because a small handful of brick and mortar retailers has a passion for books "end quote Lee child author" think that we should have had an actor who looks more like Reacher is described in the books.
"There is no such actors in the first place, so it is much more a question of what actor has the presence of the talent and the screen to create what Reacher on the screen, and really which seeks to find the actor with the talent more."
The child, last month became the fifth author spend a million sales in the Amazon Kindle store.
He said he had concerns that the emergence of electronic alternatives to paper could cut a major departure from new authors.
"This business is entirely populated by a lot of wonderful people - booksellers, bookstore owners - they are going to suffer, and that's very sad," said.
"These people are very passionate and created new authors." All authors in the festival began our because a small handful of brick and mortar retailers has a passion for books, talked to their clients face to face and mouth.
"And it is not clear what mechanism to repeat in the future."
The festival continues until Sunday and includes appearances by artists such as Martina Cole, David Baldacci, Linwood Barclay and Dennis Lehane.
Old Swan, where Agatha Christie was found after 11 days in 1926 is taking place at the Hotel.
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