" It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. "
- Joanne Kathleen Rowling
British Book Awards:
1997 (Children's Book of the Year)
1998 (Children's Book of the Year)
1999 (Children's Book of the Year)
2006 (Book of the Year)
2008 (Outstanding Achivement)
2020 (30 from 30)
2021 (Crime and Thriller)
Carnegie Medal:
1997 (Carnegie Medal)
1999 (Carnegie Medal)
Nestle Smarties Book Prize:
1997 (Gold Medal)
1998 (Gold Medal)
1999 (Gold Medal)
Scottish Arts Council Award:
1998 (Children's Book of the Year
Whitbread Book Awards:
1999 (Children's Book of the Year)
2000 (Book of the Year)
2000 (Children's Book of the Year
Bram Stoker Award:
2000 (Work for Young Readers)
2004 (Work for Young Readers)
Hugo Award:
2001 (Novel Category)
Locus Award:
2000 (Fantasy Novel Category)
Nebula Award:
2008 (Andre Norton Award)
British Academy Film Awards:
2008 (Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema)
Laurence Olivier Award:
2017 (Best New Play)
Tony Award:
2018 (Best Play)
2011 (ADG's Outstanding Contribution To cinemati Imagery Award)
2005 (Glamour Award for Writer)
2004 (Anthony Award for Best Young Adult Novel)
2018 (Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play)
Popular Culture:
1999 (Women of the Year
2007 (Person of the Year)
2007 (Most Fascinating Person of the Year)
2010 (Most Influential Women in the UK)
Miscellaneous:
2007 (Gold Blue Peter Badge)
2010 (Hans Christian Anderson Literature Award)
2016 (PEN/Allen Foundation Literacy Service Award)
2018 (Science Fiction And Fantasy Hall of Fame
2019 (Ripple of Hope Award)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Harry Potter and the Order of thr Phoenix (2007)
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010 and Part 2 (2011)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2016)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2001)
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Fantastic Beasrs: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
The Cuckoo's Calling (2013)
The Silkworm (2014)
Career of Evil (2015)
Troubled Blood (2020)
The Ink Black Heart (2022)
The Ickabog (2020)
The Christmas Pig (2021)
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and Importance of Imagination, illustrated by Joel Holland, Sphere. (2015)
A Love Letter to Europe: an Outpouring of Love and Sadness from our Writers, Thinkers and Artists, Coronet (2019)
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
57 Years Old
July 31, 1965
British
Yate, United Kingdom
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