J.K. Rowling attended the British Comedy Awards last night in London. Jo presented Stephen Fry (voice of the UK Harry Potter audio books) with a lifetime achievement award. Jonathan Ross, who hosted the event also joked with JKR when he asked her to sign a book for him, not Harry Potter but one by author Philip Pullman. The Daily Mail has a good photo of Jo HERE. You can also see some very small photos of JKR at this event HERE at Rex.
Harry Potter Author JK Rowling appeared on the show Your Total Health this weekend. She spoke about the release of Deathly Hallows, the beginning of the Harry Potter series, and the death of her mother, due to Multiple Sclerosis. She also talks about how her mother’s death changed the themes of the books. You can view her on the show below:
If you recall, many months ago, we heard about the UK channel ITV broadcasting an exclusive documentary on author J.K. Rowling as she completed “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” There are two new articles with information on this documentary, they can be read HERE and HERE.
The author JK Rowling is seen in a forthcoming TV documentary looking over the just-finished version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on her laptop. She declares: “Yeah, think I’ve finished.”
In the documentary, Rowling describes her works as “profoundly moral”, adding: “I think it is a lie to pretend that even children of 11 don’t have to make moral decisions. I think it’s an outrageous black lie.”
A Year in the Life of JK Rowling ITV1, Time to be confirmed.
For a private woman who rarely grants interviews, this is an unexpected bonus. The cameras follow the Deathly Hallows manuscript’s journey from computer to agent and finally to the publisher. Rowling also guides viewers around her childhood home and locations featured in the Potter books.
According to The Scotsman, JK Rowling has donated a signed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to The Trefoil House to be raffled off.
David McArthur, Trefoil’s chief executive said: “We are absolutely delighted by this generous gift. This is a chance for someone to win it without having to pay lots of money as it’s not an auction and as it’s only taking place over two days the odds are good.”
The book will be raffled as part of the annual Christmas Bonanza, an event where people can come and buy presents they would not normally find in mainstream shops.
The Bonanza is being held at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, New Market Road, on December 4 and 5, and the raffle winner will be drawn at the end of the second day.
The Writer’s Guild of Great Britain recently honored Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling with an for her Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Writing. The List.co.uk mentions that actress Joan Collins presented the award to JK Rowling.
Entertainment Weekly has chosen JK Rowling as their Entertainer of the Year for 2007! Read about it starting HERE and continuing to the last page (4 pages all together)!
So we’ll keep it simple: J.K. Rowling is our Entertainer of the Year because she did something very, very hard, and she did it very, very well, thus pleasing hundreds of millions of children and adults very, very much.
And now, perhaps we’ll leave her alone for a while. Rowling has said that she’s working on a couple of new ideas — one for children, one not. ”The idea of just wandering off to a café with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for a while is just bliss,” she remarked in July. So if you happen to be walking by a coffeehouse in Scotland anytime soon and you spot a 42-year-old blond woman with a pen, a pad, and an expression of intense concentration, do her a favor and don’t interrupt her. She knows what she’s doing. All is well.
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