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  Joanne Kathleen Rowling - Harry Potter - il Mago più famoso del mondo
Joanne Kathleen Rowling nasce il 31 luglio 1965 a Chipping Sodbury, nel Gloucestershire, in una famiglia della middle class.
"J.K. Rowling è riuscita a superare la barriera che impedisce a un'opera per ragazzi di raggiungere un riconoscimento pari a quello tributato agli autori per adulti" si legge nella motivazione.
Da tempo ormai J. Rowling è chiusa nella sua casa di Edimburgo, si dedica a Jessica e alla stesura del sesto volume delle avventure di Harry Potter.
www.ilmiocassetto.com /harry/autrice.php   (637 words)

  
  Jk Rowling | J k Rowling biography | J.k rowling biography | Joanne Kathleen | Harry Potter
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury, a small town in southern England.
Rowling knew she wanted to be a writer as early as age six, when she wrote her first story.
Rowling’s finished manuscript was rejected by a number of publishers before its publication as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Britain in 1997.
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 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | JK Rowling interview in full
JKR: And it reaches its apotheosis in Peter Pan obviously, where it is quite explicit, and I find that very sinister.
JKR: I met my accountant recently and I said "They say in the rich list that I am richer than the Queen, so that means you've embezzled quite a lot of money." I mean I do know what ball park I've got.
JKR: Well, while I was in between, during the three years I've just had, I was writing something else for a while which was really great, it was good, and I might go back to that.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3004456.stm   (3745 words)

  
 J. K. Rowling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was an author only in potential when she sat at a table in an Edinburgh cafe writing of Harry Potter, the boy who lived.
Joanne Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, England.
Legend has it that J.K. Rowling was a struggling single mother when she wrote the beginning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, on scraps of paper at a local cafe.
www.avon.k12.in.us /ams_media/rowling.htm   (640 words)

  
 Emma Watson Empire: Joanne Kathleen Rowling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Joanne is shown here with school friend Sean Harris, who was a good friend to her.
Rowling has been quoted many times as saying she loved teaching English, often teaching in the afternoons and evenings, so that she could be free to work on her writing during the mornings.
Rowling met and married a journalist in Portugal (he was Portuguese), and her daughter, Jessica, was born in 1993.
www.emmaempire.net /archives/cms.en.harry_jkr.html   (1602 words)

  
 Joanne Kathleen Rowling, printable version.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury on July 31, 1965.
With this success, Joanne Kathleen Rowling, became the greatest fortune (estimated at 500 million euros) female of its country.
However it tries to build its life far from the media and protects its family (it it is remarié in 2001 and with given Jessica, a little brother, David, in 2003, and a small sister, Mackenzie, in 2005).
www.stars-celebrites.com /biography-printable/R/rowling.htm   (262 words)

  
 Joanne Kathleen Rowling - Harry Potter
If you are interested in reading more about J. rowling, her books and some of the background for the books, I recommend this little booklet, which is a treasure trove of information.
K. Rowling is the author of one of the greatest successes in children's books in the last decades - the stories of Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Rowling also has written two small books, about Quidditch and Fantastic Beasts, which are supplementary to the Harry Potter novels - these are textbooks used at Hogwarts.
www.janeriks.no /Books/English/rowling.htm   (403 words)

  
 Joanne Kathleen Rowling Chat Transcript - Fantasy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
JKR Live: Well, I read a lot, but I can't think of anyone who directly influenced the Harry Potters perhaps Elizabeth Goudge she wrote 'The Little White Horse' which was my favourite book when I was about eight and which is also a blend of magic with the workaday.
JKR Live: It had to be something that suggested the intensity of the pain that Voldemort was trying to inflict upon him but a simple and plausible shape for a scar.
Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at a table in a café during her daughter's naps — and it was Harry Potter that rescued her.
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 Joanne Kathleen Rowling AkA J.K. Rowling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born on July 31, 1965, in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol, England.
While struggling to support Jessica and herself on welfare, Rowling worked on a book, the idea for which had reportedly occurred to her while she was traveling on a train from Manchester to London in 1990.
Rowling, now one of Britain's richest women, plans a total of seven books in the series, each chronicling a year in the life of Harry Potter, a young wizard, and his motley band of cohorts at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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 Joanne Kathleen Rowling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Joanne Kathleen Rowling is geboren in Edinburgh en wilde altijd al schrijfster worden.
Ze schreef haar eerste boek toen ze zes jaar was maar maakte het nooit af.
Toen Joanne K. Rowling in een trein zat, die vertraging had, is ze zomaar op Harry Potter gekomen.
www.expage.com /harrypotterrowling   (220 words)

  
 Harry Potter T.7 ; Harry Potter Et Les Reliques De La Mort, Rowling, Joanne Kathleen, Gallimard-Jeunesse - Livres en ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Il paraît en décembre en France.
Début 2002: J. Rowling épouse Neil, un médecin
En mars 2003: Elle donne naissance à son deuxième enfant, David.
3 décembre 2003: Sortie en France du cinquième volume, Harry Potter et l'Ordre du Phénix.
Lancement au château d'Édimbourg.
31 juillet 2005: J. Rowling a 40 ans.
Pendant dix-sept ans, J. Rowling a cheminé vers ce dernier chapitre du septième volume qu'elle avait écrit dès l'origine : tel un phare au bout du tunnel de tous les doutes, de toutes les rumeurs, de toutes les fatigues.
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 J.K. Rowling Bio | Joanne Kathleen Rowling Biography | Author | Harry Potter Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
She is one of the most popular writers of the past few years thanks to her Harry Potter series.
She and her husband divorced shortly after the birth of their daughter and J.K. Rowling ended up unemployed and living in a tiny flat in Edinburgh with her only child.
J.K. Rowling has plans to write a book for each of the 7 years that Harry Potter is at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p924.htm   (376 words)

  
 Sociedad Potteriana
Rowling escribió dos novelas para adultos que nunca trató de publicar antes de que se le ocurriera la idea de Harry Potter durante un viaje en tren,aunque fuera pobre y su primer obra la escribiera en servilletas de papel.
Rowling ha evitado las sugerencias de que se filmen las películas en los Estados Unidos o que participen actores estadounidenses.
Rowling se casó con el periodista portugués Jorge Arantes el 16 de Octubre de 1992, tuvieron una hija llamada Jessica (27 de Julio de 1993) y se divorciaron en 1995.
groups.msn.com /sociedadpotteriana/joannekathleenrowling.msnw   (673 words)

  
 J.K. (Joanne) Rowling - A biography of J.K. (Joanne) Rowling.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling (pronounced rolling) was born on July 31st, 1965 in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Rowling can remember telling stories from early on and writing down her first story when she was 5 or 6 years old - about a rabbit called Rabbit who got the measles and was visited by friends including a giant bee called Miss Bee.
Rowling plans seven books in the series with each one chronicling a year in the life of Harry Potter at the Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
www.bookbrowse.com /biographies/index.cfm?author_number=334   (1390 words)

  
 J. K. Rowling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rowling also owns a home in Morningside, Edinburgh, and a Georgian house in London, on a street where, according to The Guardian, the average price of a house is £4.27 million ($8 million), possibly including an underground swimming pool and 24-hour security.
Rowling's youngest child, Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray, to whom she dedicated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was born in January of 2005.
Rowling and her co-litigants argued that much of the evidence that Stouffer presented was fraudulent, and asked for sanctions and attorneys' fees as punishment.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._K._Rowling   (3475 words)

  
 Biography of JK Rowling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
She wrote her first story when she was five or six about a rabbit called ‘Rabbit’ who got the measles and was visited by Miss Bee.
She liked this name better than hers because they were always calling her Joanne Rolling-Pins.
Joanne describes herself as a 9 year old as quiet, freckly, shortsighted, and rubbish at sport.
atschool.eduweb.co.uk /chantry/year7_2002/bios/jkr1/page3.htm   (226 words)

  
 El Rinconcito Sexy: :: J.K. Rowling - Joanne Kathleen Rowling ::
Nombre completo: J. Rowling Fecha de nacimiento: 31 de julio de 1965 Es la autora británica de la historia fantástica de Harry Potter, el niño mago huérfano.
En febrero de 2004, la revista Forbes indicó que la fortuna de Rowling ascendía a 576 millones de libras esterlinas, convirtiéndose en la primera persona en hacerse millonaria escribiendo libros.
Rowling escribió dos novelas para adultos que nunca trató de publicar antes de que se le ocurriera la idea de Harry Potter durante un viaje en tren.
echicas.i-net.com.mx /archives/2006/08/_jk_rowling_joa.html   (575 words)

  
 Rowling, JK (Joanne Kathleen) | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books
The underlying themes of friendship and loyalty established in the first two books are developed into darker themes of betrayal, despair and bereavement by book number three, Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban.
Rowling intends to write seven books in all, one for each year of Harry's life at his wizard school.
Rowling has described Wart from TH White's The Sword In The Stone as "Harry's spiritual ancestor"; see also Susan Cooper's classic fantasy sequence The Dark is Rising.
books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-179,00.html   (384 words)

  
 Joanne Kathleen Rowling - Wikipedia
Joanne Kathleen Rowling, il cui vero nome è Joanne Rowling, nata il 31 luglio 1965 a Yate, Gran Bretagna, è una scrittrice inglese.
I genitori della Rowling, all'epoca due diciottenni entrambi londinesi, si incontrarono, per caso, su un treno che partiva dalla stazione di King's Cross a Londra diretto a Arbroath in Scozia.
A questo punto Joanne Rowling si trova disoccupata e a vivere con i fondi statali.
it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joanne_Kathleen_Rowling   (751 words)

  
 Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Joanne was erg stil en niet echt goed in sport.
Dit was Joanne's lievelingsboek toen ze een ongeveer 8 jaar oud was.
Joanne schrijft bijna elke dag en soms wel 10 of 11 uur lang!
www.digitoon.nl /naomiweb/j.kRowling.html   (379 words)

  
 MuggleNet | Emerson and Melissa's J.K. Rowling Interview Page 1
JKR: That is not a strange question; it's a very valid question because once the book is published, I rarely re-read.
JKR: The most likely thing I've said this a few times before, would be an encyclopedia in which I could have fun with the minor characters and I could give the definitive biography of all the characters.
JKR: I see him as isolated, and a few people have said to me rightly I think, that he is detached.
www.mugglenet.com /jkrinterview.shtml   (1601 words)

  
 Biografie: Joanne Kathleen Rowling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Als Joanne noch klein war, zog sie mit ihren Eltern und der jüngeren Schwester Diana nach Winterbourne.
Der Tod der Mutter leitete eine unruhige und ziellose Zeit ein, aber Joanne fand endlich eine Stelle in ihrem Traumberuf 'Lehrerin'.
Joanne Rowling hat sich nie über die Probleme, die sie mit ihrem Ex-Mann hatte, geäußert und zog mit ihrer Tochter zu ihrer Schwester nach Edinburgh.
www.gilthserano.de /bio/sonstige/bio-rowling.html   (1281 words)

  
 Fans de Dan, Emma y Rupert!
Joanne comenzó a escribir Harry Potter cuando se le ocurrió la idea en un interminable viaje en tren entre Manchester y Londres.
Joanne se mudó a Portugal donde trabajó como profesora de inglés, se casó, quedó embarazada y siguió escribiendo en cafés.
Divorciada, viviendo de la asistencia pública en un pequeño departamento de Edimburgo con su pequeña hija, Joanne continuó escribiendo Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal en una mesa de café durante las siestas de su hija, y fue Harry Potter quien la rescató.
groups.msn.com /FansdeDanEmmayRupert/joannekathleonrowling.msnw   (320 words)

  
 Joanne Kathleen Rowling - Wikipédia
Rowling, de son vrai nom Joanne Katleen Rowling (voir ci-dessous), est née à Chipping Sodbury, dans le Gloucestershire du Sud, près de Bristol, le 31 juillet 1965.
J.K. Rowling a assuré que les aventures de son héros s'arrêteraient au septième tome, qu'elle a commencé à écrire.
JK Rowling, jeune mère divorcée, vivait d'allocations-chômage lorsqu'elle a commencé, sur un coin de table de café mal chauffé, à écrire les aventures du jeune sorcier.
fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joanne_Kathleen_Rowling   (1316 words)

  
 J K ROWLING - RAGS TO RICHES - THE HARRY POTTER WAY
Joanne Kathleen Rowling is laughing all the way to the bank and only Vedic Astrology has the answer to the why of it!
The three most beneficial of planets Moon, Mercury and Venus are located in the luckiest of houses, the eleventh house of gains.
In Joanne's case Mars the money lord in the house of loss is a poor planet and thus it comes as no surprise that she was broke during all of Mars major period during her youth.
www.osfa.org.uk /jkrowling.htm   (533 words)

  
 Autor: Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Im Juli 1965 wurde Joanne Kathleen als Tochter von Peter und Anne Rowling im General Hospital in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, geboren.
Dort spielte Joanne mit Nachbarskinder, von denen zwei den Namen Potter hatten.
Zurück in England erzählt Rowling ihrer Schwester von Harry Potter und diese ist sofort begeistert.
www.thoregon.de /sff/darsteller/joannekathleenrowling.html   (532 words)

  
 Joanne Kathleen Rowling - Wikiquote
Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965 – vivente), scrittrice britannica.
Fece scorrere la punta della penna d'aquila sulla pagina, aggrottando le sopracciglia, alla ricerca di qualcosa che potesse aiutarlo a scrivere il tema: Perché i roghi di streghe nel Quattordicesimo secolo furono completamente inutili.
[Joanne Kathleen Rowling, Harry Potter e il principe mezzosangue, Salani.
it.wikiquote.org /wiki/Joanne_Kathleen_Rowling   (1136 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Rencontre avec J. K. Rowling: Books: J. K. (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling,Lindsey Fraser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Mais derrière ce personnage se cache un auteur, Joanne K. Rowling, aussi passionnante et pétillante que son héros.
Ce volume renferme l'interview que Lindsey Fraser, critique littéraire jeunesse, a eu avec J. Rowling et une présentation d'une vingtaine de pages des premiers ##Harry Potter##.
Rowling, J. (Joanne Kathleen), 1967- - Personnages - Harry Potter
www.amazon.ca /Rencontre-avec-J-K-Rowling/dp/2070545806   (310 words)

  
 Accio Quote!, the Largest Archive of J.K. Rowling quotes on the web   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
My deepest thanks to Trish Drasnin, because she sent me not only the video clips, but also a beautifully executed transcript of the July 8, 2000 interview that Stephen Fry did while he and Rowling were aboard the Hogwarts Express.
JKR: The funny thing is that I did always think that, if it ever did get published, it was a book for obsessives.
JKR: And I did think if people liked it they would probably like it obsessively.
www.quick-quote-quill.org /articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-2.htm   (743 words)

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