As well as receiving an OBE for services to children’s literature, she has received many awards and honours, including an OBE and Companion of Honour, France’s Légion d’honneur, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. She has also written The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adult readers, and the Strike crime series, written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Rowling’s digital company Pottermore was launched, where fans can enjoy news, features and articles, as well as original content from J.K. She has also collaborated on a stage play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two, which opened in London’s West End in the summer of 2016 and on Broadway in early 2018. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts is a collection of 3 books starting with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and ending with The Secrets of. She has written three companion volumes in aid of charity: Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (in aid of Comic Relief and Lumos), and The Tales of Beedle the Bard (in aid of Lumos), as well as a film script inspired by Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which marked the start of a five-film series to be written by the author. Loved by fans around the world, the series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into 80 languages, and made into 8 blockbuster films. While visiting New York in 1926, the courageous and eccentric wizard Newt Scamander uncovers a sinister plot that. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter novels.

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