Growing up one of everyone’s favorite movie is Harry Potter. The story of Harry Potter took a special place in history which can never be erased or replaced. People of all age group does know about Harry potter. As many of you all know, Harry Potter movie series was originally made from the book that the great author Joanne Rowling wrote. Hee starting stage of publishing the books were unsuccessful then stepping on the further milestone now it is one of the top selling book. So who is this Joanne Rowling? How did Harry Potter began?
Joanne Rowling was born on 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol, and grew up in Gloucestershire in England and in Chepstow, Gwent, in south-east Wales. Her father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol and her mother, Anne, was a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive, where Jo herself went to school. Anne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Jo was a teenager and died in 1990, before the Harry Potter books were published. Jo also has a younger sister, Di. The young Jo grew up surrounded by books. “I lived for books,’’ she has said. “I was your basic common-or-garden bookworm, complete with freckles and National Health spectacles.” growing up in this situation she developed an interest in books which further lead her in a different pathway. Jo wanted to be a writer from an early age. She wrote her first book at the age of six – a story about a rabbit, called ‘Rabbit’. At just eleven, she wrote her first novel – about seven cursed diamonds and the people who owned them.
Having completed the full manuscript, she sent the first three chapters to a number of literary agents, one of whom wrote back asking to see the rest of it. She says it was “the best letter I had ever received in my life.”The book was first published by Bloomsbury Children’s Books in June 1997, under the name J.K. Rowling.J.K. Rowling has received many honours and awards, including:
Companion of Honour, for services to literature and philanthropy, 2017
PEN America Literary Service Award, 2016
Freedom of the City of London, 2012
Hans Christian Andersen Award, Denmark, 2010
Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur: France, 2009
Lifetime Achievement Award, British Book Awards, 2008
South Bank Show Award for Outstanding Achievement, 2008
James Joyce Award, University College Dublin, 2008
The Edinburgh Award, 2008
Commencement Day Speaker, Harvard University, USA, 2008
Blue Peter Gold Badge, 2007
WH Smith Fiction Award, 2004
Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, Spain, 2003
Order of the British Empire (OBE), 2001
Children’s Book of the Year, British Book Awards, 1998 and 1999
Booksellers Association Author of the Year, 1998 and 1999
She said that most of her book of Harry Potter was written when she was in a cafeteria. Who knew her creativity will present us with a feast of Harry Potter.
So, about the story was publishing, the series of rejection she had to face, the first book launch, the success story behind it, and further series launch, and finally the making of the Great Harry Potter movie series about all this we will see in the next blog! Keep tracking the Publication. Next blog tomorrow sharp at 8am!
