About Author
Award Winning Author
Rowling’s Harry Potter series has won awards for general literature, children’s literature, and speculative fiction. It has earned multiple British Book Awards, beginning with the Children’s Book of the Year for the first two volumes, Philosopher’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets.
The third novel, Prisoner of Azkaban, was nominated for an adult award, the Whitbread Book of the Year, where it competed against the Nobel Prize laureate Seamus Heaney‘s translation of Beowulf. The award body gave Rowling the children’s prize instead (worth half the cash amount), which some scholars felt exemplified a literary prejudice against children’s books. She won the World Science Fiction Convention‘s Hugo Award for the fourth book, Goblet of Fire,and the British Book Awards’ adult prize – the Book of the Year – for the sixth novel, Half-Blood Prince.
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2000
World's #1 Best-selling Book
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Order of the British Empire (OBE)
2001, UK honour
Hugo Award for Best Novel
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2001
1986
My First Book
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on 26 June 1997. US title: Sorcerer’s Stone
UK title: Philosopher’s Stone
1992
Released on Store
The first book by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, was released in bookstores in the UK on 26 June 1997.
1998
US Bestselling Book
J.K. Rowling’s best-selling book in the U.S., it is generally Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the U.S. edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
1999
My First Award
Smarties Prize in 1997 for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.