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Rowling in 2010

Joanne Rowling, known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist.[1] She has won numerous accolades for her Harry Potter book series, including general literature prizes, honours in children's literature and speculative fiction awards. The series has garnered multiple British Book Awards, beginning with the Children's Book of the Year in 1997 and 1998 for the first two volumes, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In 2000 the third novel, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was nominated for an adult award – the Whitbread Book of the Year – where it competed against a book by a Nobel prize laureate (Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf). The award body gave Rowling the children's prize instead (worth half the cash amount); some scholars view this as exposing a literary prejudice against children's books.[2][3] Next followed the World Science Fiction Convention's 2001 Hugo Award for the fourth book, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,[4] and the British Book Awards' adult prize – the 2006 Book of the Year – for the sixth novel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Rowling's early career awards include the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to children's literature in 2000, and three years later, the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for Concord. She won the British Book Awards' Author of the Year and Outstanding Achievement prizes over the span of the Harry Potter series. Following the series' completion, Time named Rowling a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, citing the social, moral and political inspiration she gave the Harry Potter fandom.[5] Two years later, she was recognised as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy;[6] leading magazine editors then named her the "Most Influential Woman in the UK" the following October.[7] Later awards include the Freedom of the City of London in 2012 and for her services to literature and philanthropy, the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2017.

Academic bodies have bestowed multiple honours on Rowling. She has received honorary degrees from the University of Aberdeen; the University of St Andrews; Dartmouth College; the University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh Napier University; the University of Exeter (which she attended)[8] and Harvard University. Rowling spoke at Harvard's 2008 commencement ceremony;[9] the same year, she also won University College Dublin's James Joyce Award. Her other honours include fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE).

Rowling's awards for film, theatre and crime fiction include the 2011 British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema for the Harry Potter film series, the 2017 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and the 2021 British Book Awards' Crime and Thriller category for the fifth volume of her Cormoran Strike series.

Literature

General literature

General literature
Award Year Category Work Result Ref.
British Book Awards 1997 Children's Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Won [10]
1998 Children's Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Won [11]
1999 Author of the Year J. K. Rowling Won [11]
2000 Children's Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Nominated [12]
2004 Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Nominated [13]
2006 Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Won [14]
2008 Outstanding Achievement J. K. Rowling Won [15]
2009 Children's Book of the Year The Tales of Beedle the Bard Nominated [16]
2017 Children's Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Nominated [17]
2020 30 From 30 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Won [18]
2021 Crime and Thriller Troubled Blood Won [19]
Carnegie Medal 1997 Carnegie Medal Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Commended [20]
1999 Carnegie Medal Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Nominated [21]
Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1997 Gold Medal Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Won [22]
1998 Gold Medal Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Won [11]
1999 Gold Medal Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Won [11]
Scottish Arts Council Award 1998 Children's Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Won [11]
Whitbread Book Awards 1999 Children's Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Nominated [23]
2000 Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Nominated [24]
Children's Book of the Year Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Won [24]

Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction
Award Year Category Work Result Ref.
Bram Stoker Award 2000 Work for Young Readers Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Won [4]
2001 Work for Young Readers Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Nominated [4]
2004 Work for Young Readers Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Won [4]
Hugo Award 2000 Novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Nominated [4]
2001 Novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Won [4]
Locus Award 1999 First Novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Nominated [4]
2000 Fantasy Novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Won [4]
2019 Art Book The Tales of Beedle the Bard Nominated [4]
Mythopoeic Award 1999 Children's Literature Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Nominated [4]
2000 Children's Literature Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Nominated [4]
2008 Children's Literature The Harry Potter Series Won [4]
Nebula Award 2008 Andre Norton Award[a] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Won [27]

Crime fiction

Crime fiction
Award Year Work Result Ref.
Gold Dagger 2015 The Silkworm Nominated [28]
2021 Troubled Blood Nominated [29]
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2021 Troubled Blood Nominated [29]
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2016 Career of Evil Nominated [30]

Film and theatre

Film and theatre awards
Award Year Category Work Result Ref.
British Academy Film Awards 2010 Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Harry Potter film series[b] Won [32]
British Academy Children's Awards 2011 Feature Film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Won [33]
Laurence Olivier Awards 2017 Best New Play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Won [34]
Tony Awards 2018 Best Play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Won [35]

Career awards

State

State awards
Year Country Honour Citation Ref.
2000 UK Order of the British Empire (OBE) Services to children's literature [36]
2003 Spain Prince of Asturias Award for Concord Children's literature[c] [37]
2008 UK Edinburgh Award Contributions to Edinburgh [38]
2009 France Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur [6]
2012 UK Freedom of the City of London Services to children's literature [39]
2017 UK Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) Services to literature and philanthropy [40]

Academic

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Rowling after receiving an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen
Academic awards
Year Institution Honour Ref.
2000 Dartmouth College Honorary degree [41][42]
Edinburgh Napier University Honorary degree [43]
University of Exeter Honorary degree [8]
University of St Andrews Honorary degree [44]
2002 Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellowship (HonFRSE) [45]
Royal Society of Literature Fellowship (FRSL) [46]
2004 University of Edinburgh Honorary degree [47][48]
2006 University of Aberdeen Honorary degree [49][50]
2008 Harvard University Honorary degree [9]
University College Dublin James Joyce Award [41]
2017 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Fellowship (FRCPE) [51]

Popular culture

Popular culture awards
Year Awarded by Title Result Ref.
1999 Glamour Woman of the Year Won [52]
2007 Time Person of the Year Runner-up [5]
Barbara Walters (ABC) Most Fascinating Person of the Year Won [53]
2010 National Magazine Company Most Influential Woman in the UK Won [7]

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous career awards
Year Organisation Award Ref.
2007 Blue Peter Gold Blue Peter badge [54]
2010 Hans Christian Andersen Literature Committee Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award [55]
2016 PEN America PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award [56]
2018 Museum of Pop Culture Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame [4]
2019 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award (returned in 2020) [57]

Notes

  1. ^ The Andre Norton Award was "not a Nebula" at the time Deathly Hallows won,[25] but the rules were later changed to make it a Nebula Award category.[26] The change is retroactive: SFWA now lists the book as winner of the Andre Norton Nebula Award.[27]
  2. ^ Rowling accepted the award with producer David Heyman and members of the cast and crew.[31]
  3. ^ The award body described Rowling's work as "vínculo entre continentes y generaciones [es: a link between continents and generations]" and as promoting "la imaginación como fuente de libertad al servicio del bien y la cooperación y la solidaridad entre las personas [es: imagination as a source of freedom at the service of good and cooperation and solidarity among people]".[37]

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