JK Rowling
- Profession: Author
- Place/Date of Birth: Bristol , 31 July 2020
JK Rowling meets with the Queen -22/03/01
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has met the Queen as part of day spent visiting different aspects of the British book publishing industry. The event is another of the Royal theme days when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh undertake a series of engagements all connected with the same subject. The Queen and the Duke met with JK Rowling at Bloomsbury Publishing’s London offices - the company which publishes the Harry Potter books. JK Rowling, 35, was at Buckingham Palace on 2 March, to receive an OBE for services to children’s literature from the Prince of Wales.
JK Rowling writes two more books for Comic Relief - 13/03/01
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has written stories featuring their famous characters in aid of Comic Relief.
J K Rowling has produced Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is the book junior wizard Harry bought to prepare him for Hogwarts school. She has also written Quidditch Through The Ages, a library book that Harry uses to learn the rules of the school’s signature sporting activity, which involves teams playing ball on broomsticks.
JK Rowling received an OBE earlier this month from Prince Charles. "When Comic Relief asked me to write something I thought I would just love to write the two books," Ms Rowling told the BBC. "I did two because I had two in my head and I couldn’t really decide between Quidditch and Fantastic Beasts, so I decided to do them both."
Comic Relief founder Richard Curtis approached J K Rowling to write a story saying he was sure she would not be able to but he would still love her books regardless. "It was a very clever way of asking somebody to do something, though I didn’t really need much persuading" JK Rowling told the BBC.
Author to receive OBE from Charles - 05/03/01
J K Rowling to receive OBE from Charles Harry Potter creator JK Rowling is set to receive her OBE from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace. Ms Rowling, 35, is to get the honour for services to children’s literature. The Edinburgh-based single mother, whose first names is Joanne, has sold more than 30 million copies of her schoolboy wizard books worldwide.
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As a post-graduate, she moved to London to work at Amnesty International doing research into human rights abuses in Francophone Africa, she married and divorced and was left holding the baby. The tale of how Rowling scratched out her first book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in an Edinburgh caf? while surviving on social security is well known.
When Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was bought and published by Bloomsbury in 1997 her life changed dramatically, the Harry Potter series has since then won numerous awards and become a tremendous success around the world. Warner Brothers have bought the rights to the first two books for a "substantial seven figure sum".
Now you can watch the books on the silver screen, starring Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger and featuring Robbie Coltrane, Zoe Wanamaker and John Cleese. Learn this, or face ridicule from adults and children alike.
November 2007