Joanne
Kathleen Rowling, a novelist known for her long works
was born in Chipping Sodbury, England on July 31, 1965. The seven series Harry
Potter novel are the world's best-selling book of all time. After graduating
from Exeter University majoring in French literature, she moved to Portugal in
1990 to teach English. There she married a Portuguese journalist in 1992, later
named his daughter Jessica was born in 1993. He then moved to Edinburgh with
her son after her marriage ended in divorce. At the end of 2001, Rowling
married again with Dr. Neil Murray. She gave birth to David Gordon Rowling
Murray in 2003 and Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray in 2005.
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Rowling
grow into women who have strong aspirations as a
writer since childhood. Harry Potter imagination stories came when she traveled
by train from Manchester to London in 1990. The beginning of her fame began in
June 1997, when the first series is Harry Potter novel And the Philosopher's
Stone became a bestseller in the United Kingdom. July 1998 she launched her
second Harry Potter series entitled Potter And The Chamber Of Secret and again became
bestseller in England. July 1999 she launched her third series entitled Harry
Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban which then got best selling in the UK. In that
year also, the first three series of the novels came in the order of the top
three in the list of New York Times Best Seller. Due to the popularity of her
books, world publishing companies of Harry Potter books
translated in 67 languages and distributed in more than 200 countries.
Fourth
book Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire Harry Potter and the fifth book And
The Order Of The Poenix is the best-selling book again in history. Then in July
2005 the sixth book Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince was published and
the book cover Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows was published in July 2007
also achieved spectacular sales performance. The
success of his novel is also coupled with the success of the film adaptation of
his novel.
J.K.
Rowling Awards:
1997: Nestlé
Smarties Book Prize, a gold award for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
1998: Nestlé
Smarties Book Prize, a gold award for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
1998: British
Children's Book of the Year, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone as a
winner
1999: Nestlé
Smarties Book Prize, a gold award for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
1999: British
Children's Book of the Year, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as the
winner
1999:
Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
as the winner
2000: British
Book Awards, Author of the Year.
2000: Order of
the British Empire, Officer.
2003: Premio
Príncipe de Asturias, Concord.
2003: Bram
Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers, Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix as the winner
2006: British
Book of the Year, for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince as the winner
2007: Blue
Peter Badge, Gold.
2008: British
Book Awards, Outstanding Achievement.
2009: Legion
d'honneur, presented by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
2010: Hans
Christian Andersen Literature Award, winner of the Inaugural award.
2011: British
Academy Film Awards, Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema for the film
series Harry Potter
Honorary
degrees: St Andrews University, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier
University, University of Exeter, Harvard University
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