South Bank awards honour Rowling
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Author JK Rowling receives an  outstanding achievement prize at the South Bank Show awards.
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Harry Potter author Joanne Kathleen Rowling gave birth on Sunday in Edinburgh, Scotland to a daughter who has been given the name Mackenzie Jean. She is Rowling's third child, and her second child with husband Neil Murray. Her first daughter Jes...
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EVERY October the British publishing world lets its hair down to celebrate the Man Booker Prize, the most popular and best known - if not the richest - literary award in the British Isles.
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London: The story of Basil DâOliveiraâs life as a South African-born cricketer during apartheid won Britainâs sports book of the year award.
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Bestselling author J.K. Rowling joined the young stars of the Harry Potter movies on Tuesday at the London premiere of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the fifth in the seven-part franchise.
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J.K Rowling, who became the world's first billion dollar author on the back of Harry Potter's success, has given the go-ahead for the creation of a Florida theme park dedicated to the schoolboy wizard.
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Sarah Waters has emerged as the bookies' favourite to win this year's Man Booker Prize for her novel &quot;The Night Watch&quot; after previous front-runner David Mitchell failed to make the shortlist for the award.
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For Meryl Streep and Yoko Ono, it is recognition at last. For J.K. Rowling and Condoleezza Rice, it is time to join the front ranks.
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A hand-written and illustrated tale of  wizardry by Harry Potter author JK Rowling fetched 1.95 million  pounds ($3.98 million) -- nearly 40 times its expected price --  at auction on Thursday.
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Business & money: Publisher Bloomsbury boosted by strong overseas pre-orders of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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J. K. Rowling, who gave the world Harry Potter, will be the principal speaker at the afternoon exercises of Harvard Universityâs 357th commencement on June 5. âPerhaps no one in our time has done more than J. K. Rowling to inspire young people to experience the excitement and sheer joy of reading,â said Drew Gilpin Faust, the universityâs president.
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Arts & entertainment: To her fans, Michelle Paver is the next JK Rowling. Stephen Moss meets her.
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J.K. Rowling marked the spot where she finished the final "Harry Potter" book. "J.K. Rowling finished writing `Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows' in this room on 11 Jan 2007," read the message on an antique-style statue at Edinburgh's five-star Balmoral Hotel.
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JK Rowling will take part in a marathon overnight autograph session to celebrate the release of the final Harry Potter book in July.
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Andrea Levy is named Whitbread best novel author for her novel Small Island, about post-war London life.
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Authors including Ian McEwan, Lloyd Jones and Nicola Barker are shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize.
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Ex-cricketer Ian Botham and novelist Salman Rushdie are among the new knights in the Queen's Birthday Honours.