J.K. Rowling | A Year in the Life, ITV (2007)

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J.K. Rowling is the author of the much-loved series of seven Harry Potter novels, originally published between 1997 and 2007. Along with the three companion books written for charity, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into 80 languages, and made into eight blockbuster films.

J.K. Rowling has received many honours and awards, including:

The Robert F Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award (2019)
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

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Charities
J.K. Rowling supports a number of causes and organisations, mainly through her charitable trust, Volant. She is also the founder and president of the international children's charity Lumos.

As a postgraduate, J.K. Rowling worked at the London office of Amnesty International, doing research into human rights abuses in the French-speaking countries of Africa.

J.K. Rowling was Patron of the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Scotland for nine years. She stepped down as Patron in 2009 and now continues to support MS research directly through the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.

She was a patron of the Maggie's Centres for Cancer Care for several years. Maggie’s Centres are a network of drop-in centres across the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, which aim to help anyone who has been affected by cancer, in numerous practical ways.

For Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders, she performed in a fundraising event with authors Stephen King and John Irving in New York in 2006, and in 2011 contributed to a book in aid of the charity, Dear Me: More Letters to My 16-year old Self.


The Volant Charitable Trust
The Volant Charitable Trust was set up by J.K. Rowling in 2000 as a grant making trust to support Scottish charities, groups and projects, both national or community-based, which help alleviate social deprivation, particularly concerned with women, children and young people at risk.

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