Jk Rowling was born on the 31 July. She lived in yate, England. Jk Rowling was a British novelist. She wrote Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, The Cuckoos Calling, The Silkworm and The Tales Of Beedle The Bard. She was best known for writing the Harry Potter books.
By the summer of 2000, the first three Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban earned approximately $480 million in three years. As a single mother living in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling became an international literary sensation in 1999, when the first three instalments of her Harry Potter
By the summer of 2000, the first three Harry Potter books, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban earned approximately $480 million in three years. As a single mother living in Edinburgh, Scotland, Rowling became an international literary sensation in 1999, when the first three instalments of her Harry Potter
children's book series took over the top three slots of The New York Times best-seller list after achieving similar success in her native United Kingdom. A graduate of Exeter University, Rowling moved to Portugal in 1990 to teach English. There, she met and married the Portuguese journalist Jorge Arantes. The couple's daughter, Jessica, was born in 1993.
After her marriage ended in divorce, Rowling moved to Edinburgh with her daughter to live near her younger sister, Di. While struggling to support Jessica and herself on welfare, Rowling worked on a book, the idea for which had reportedly occurred to her while she was traveling on a train from Manchester to London in 1990. After a number of rejections, she finally sold the book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (the word "Philosopher" was changed to "Sorcerer" for its publication America), for the equivalent of about $4,000.
After her marriage ended in divorce, Rowling moved to Edinburgh with her daughter to live near her younger sister, Di. While struggling to support Jessica and herself on welfare, Rowling worked on a book, the idea for which had reportedly occurred to her while she was traveling on a train from Manchester to London in 1990. After a number of rejections, she finally sold the book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (the word "Philosopher" was changed to "Sorcerer" for its publication America), for the equivalent of about $4,000.
Honours and Awards
J.K. Rowling has received many honours and awards, including:
- Author of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award, British Book Awards, 1999 and 2008
- Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 1998 and 1999
- Order of the British Empire (OBE), 2001
- WH Smith Fiction Award, 2004
- Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, Spain, 2003
- Blue Peter Gold Badge, 2007
- Commencement speaker, Harvard University, USA, 2008
- The Edinburgh Award, 2008
- James Joyce Award, University College Dublin, 2008
Charities
JK. Rowling co-founded the Children’s High Level Group (CHLG) with Baroness Emma Nicholson MEP, in 2005. She was moved to do so by an article reporting that children were sleeping in caged beds, in institutions in the Czech Republic. A special edition of J.K. Rowling’s book The Tales of Beedle the Bard was auctioned for CHLG in 2007, raising £1.95 million, and the following year this title was published in aid of the charity, quickly becoming the fastest-selling book of the year. In 2010 the charity became Lumos, and changed its remit slightly: it now works to end the systematic institutionalisation of children across Europe and help them find safer, more caring places to live.
http://www.wearelumos.org
http://www.wearelumos.org