https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38 A biography of J.K Rowling en-us 2022-04-26 01:53:29 UTC 2022-04-26 02:30:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157666344 Joanne Rowling was born in 31 july 1965. She is a British author and philanthropist known by her pen name J. K. Rowling. Her parents are Anne (née Volant) and Peter "Pete" James. She was married with Jorge Arantes and has a daughter Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes. Then they separated on 17 November 1993. Her almamater were University of Exeter and Moray House.]]> 2022-04-26 02:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157666344 https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157672146 Joanne has a sister, Dianne, two years younger than her. When Joanne was four, the family moved to Winterbourne, Gloucestershire. She began at St Michael's Church of England Primary School in Winterbourne when she was five. The Rowlings lived near a family called Potter – a name Joanne always liked. Anne loved to read and their homes were filled with books. Pete read The Wind in the Willows to his daughters, while Anne introduced them to the animals in Richard Scarry's books. Joanne's first attempt at writing, a story called "Rabbit" composed when she was six, was inspired by Scarry's creatures.]]> 2022-04-26 02:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157672146 https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157672661 In 1974, Rowling began attending the nearby Church of England School. When she was eleven or twelve, she wrote a short story, "The Seven Cursed Diamonds". Rowling's secondary school was Wyedean School and College, a state school she began attending at age eleven and where she was bullied. Anne Rowling was diagnosed with a "virulent strain" of multiple sclerosis when she was 34 or 35 and Jo was 15, and had to give up her job. Rowling's home life was complicated by her mother's illness. She applied to Oxford University in 1982 but was rejected. Biographers attribute her rejection to privilege, as she had attended a state school rather than a private one.]]> 2022-04-26 02:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157672661 https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157684089 Anne Rowling, mother of J.K. Rowling died on December 30, 1990 at the age of 45.9Jo conceived the idea of Harry Potter in 1990 while sitting on a delayed train from Manchester to London King’s Cross. Over the next five years, she began to map out all seven books of the series. She wrote mostly in longhand and gradually built up a mass of notes, many of which were scribbled on odd scraps of paper. 9 months after his mother died, J.K. Rowling decided to bounce back and move to Portugal. After living for 18 months, J.K. Rowling met with a Portuguese television journalist named Jorge Arantes. On October 16, 1992, they decided to get married. Her husband had become an activist and J.K Rowling had to work hard until the birth of her daughter. J.K. Rowling gave birth to a daughter on July 27, 1993 and was named Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes. After that, J.K. Rowling experienced domestic violence and this made J.K. Rowling and moved into her sister's house. J.K.'s hard work Rowling was able to buy a house and live alone with her daughter in the elite District. When the marriage ended later that year, she returned to the UK to live in Edinburgh, with  Jessica and  a suitcase containing the first three chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
In Edinburgh, Jo trained as a teacher and began teaching in the city’s schools, but she continued to write in every spare moment.]]> 2022-04-26 02:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157684089 https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157694220 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 said 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. The “K” stands for Kathleen, her paternal grandmother’s name. It was added at her publisher’s request, who thought a book by an obviously female author might not appeal to the target audience of young boys. The book was published in the US by Scholastic under a different title (again at the publisher’s request), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, in 1998.  Six further titles followed in the Harry Potter series, each achieving record-breaking success.]]> 2022-04-26 02:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157694220 https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157694980 J.K. remarried in 2001 with Neil Murray and had 2 children. In 2001, the film adaptation of the first book was released by Warner Bros., and was followed by six more book adaptations, concluding with the release of the eighth film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, in 2011.]]> 2022-04-26 02:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157694980 https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157695574 In 2012, J.K. Rowling’s digital company Pottermore was launched, which became Wizarding World Digital in 2019. Pottermore Publishing continues to be the global digital publisher of Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts and the Wizarding World. Also in 2016, J.K. Rowling made her screenwriting debut with the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a further extension of the Wizarding World, which was released to critical acclaim in November 2016.   This was the first in a series of new adventures featuring Magizoologist Newt Scamander and set before the time of Harry Potter. The second film, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released in 2018 and the third, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is to be released in April 2022. In March 2020, J.K. Rowling and Wizarding World partners launched the Harry Potter At Home initiative to entertain children stuck at home during the Covid-19 pandemic with the first Harry Potter book read aloud by celebrities on video, and made available for free through audiobook and ebook streaming.]]> 2022-04-26 02:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157695574 https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157696006 J.K. Rowling has received many honours and awards, including Children’s Book of the Year, British Book Awards, in 1998 and 1999
Booksellers Association Author of the Year, in 1998 and 1999, Children’s Book of the Year, British Book Awards, in 1998 and 1999
Booksellers Association Author of the Year, in 1998 and 1999, Order of the British Empire (OBE), in 2001Prince of Asturias Award for Concord, Spain, im 2003Blue Peter Gold Badge in 2007Lifetime Achievement Award, British Book Awards, South Bank Show Award for Outstanding Achievement, James Joyce Award University College Dublin, The Edinburgh Award,
Commencement Day Speaker Harvard University, USA, all in 2008, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur: France in 2009, Hans Christian Andersen Award, Denmark in 2010, Freedom of the City of London in 2012, PEN America Literary Service Award in 2016 Companion of Honour, for services to literature and philanthropy in 2017.]]> 2022-04-26 02:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157696006 https://padlet.com/kles/d4lhp0w8werpt38/wish/2157697769 1. Angelie Janet/02
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