https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w Post your translation here en-us 2022-02-13 16:49:02 UTC 2022-02-14 11:26:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045925175 J.K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born on the 31st of July in 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, a small village located in Kent, near Bristol. Her father Peter Rowling is a retired engineer of Rolls-Royce and her mother Anne, of French origin and deceased in 1990 from multiple sclerosis, worked as a laboratory technician.]]> 2022-02-14 10:39:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045925175 https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045928733 She didn’t have money, neither could she get a job nor could she pay for a babysitter while she looked for a job, fell into a deep depression and since she had nothing to lose, she decided that she was going to write the book she had thought about for so long. 

]]> 2022-02-14 10:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045928733 https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045931773 It was her mother, Anne, a fervent reader who drove Joanne’s literary career by introducing her to literature from an early age. This fondness for books and an innate imagination sparked off the creation of her first stories such as Rabbit, a tale that she wrote when she was six years old. The protagonists were a rabbit and a group of friends which included a bee named Miss Bee.]]> 2022-02-14 10:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045931773 https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045932348 After her mother's death in 1990, and eager to explore the world, Rowling moved to Portugal to work as an English teacher. In October 1992, she married a Portuguese journalist, but they split up a few months later. From this union, Joanne gave birth to her daughter Jessica, with whom she moved to Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. Her sister Di lived and worked as a nurse there.


]]> 2022-02-14 10:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045932348 https://padlet.com/rebeccasarahfisher/u9684zf5dzsdxn0w/wish/2045934438 Rowling wrote two novels for adults with no intention of publishing them before the idea of Harry Potter came in mind during a train journey between Manchester and London. It was extended for four more hours due to a train breakdown. According to Rowling, she already had created all the characters for the novel’s plot at the end of the train journey.

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