September 22nd, 2008 - 3:08 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept 22 (ANI): Harry Potter creator JK Rowling might have reached great heights of success but her new lifestyle is a far cry from the world she lived in when ...
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September 20th, 2008 - 4:27 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept 20 (ANI): JK Rowling, the author of best-selling books about boy wizard Harry Potter, has donated a million pounds to the Labour Party.
According to The Telegraph, the Labour Party ...
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September 20th, 2008 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept 20 (ANI): JK Rowling has said that she can''t imagine ever leaving Edinburgh after receiving an award honouring her contribution to literature.
The Harry Potter creator, who modelled Hogwarts on ...
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September 19th, 2008 - 6:56 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept 19 (ANI): Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has been honoured with Edinburgh''s most prestigious civic award for her contribution to literature.
The prestigious Edinburgh Award was earlier won by Rankin, ...
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September 19th, 2008 - 5:22 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept 19 (ANI): Brisingr, a new fantasy childrens book, will be met with near Harry Potter-style demand when it goes on sale on Sept 20, according to Waterstones.
The third book ...
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September 17th, 2008 - 2:31 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept 17 (ANI): TV producer Russell T Davies has revealed that his team had to cancel a Dr Who Christmas special after the shows legend David Tennant refused to star ...
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September 9th, 2008 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Sept 9 (ANI): Noted author JK Rowling has won the copyright case against a fan, who planned to publish a Harry Potter Lexicon.
Judge Robert Patterson in US District Court ...
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August 31st, 2008 - 6:12 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Aug 31 (ANI): London based publishing house Bloomsbury is hoping that Harry Potter author JK Rowling will weave some more magic with her latest work.
Nigel Newton had founded the company ...
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August 19th, 2008 - 2:36 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Aug 19 (ANI): Enid Blyton has been named ''Britain''s Best-Loved Author'' in a new survey.
Blyton, creator of the Famous Five books as well as the Secret Seven, Malory Towers ...
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August 1st, 2008 - 12:23 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Aug 1 (ANI): Harry Potter author JK Rowling is releasing her first book since the boy wizards final outing last year.
''The Tales of Beedle the Bard'', which will be ...
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July 28th, 2008 - 9:37 pm ICT by David M N James
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The hype is that Troll is making a comeback. Ali Lohan is the top choice of director John Carl Buechler for his remake of the 1986 horror flick “Troll”. The remake is ...
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July 23rd, 2008 - 1:58 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 23 (ANI): British writer JK Rowling revealed that she regrets not having told her mother, Anne, about the Harry Potter book she was writing.
Rowling had started writing the book ...
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July 22nd, 2008 - 2:50 pm ICT by IANS
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London, July 22 (IANS) British characters Harry Potter and Mr. Bean gave UK cinema the necessary fillip last year, with box office takings from British films topping
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July 18th, 2008 - 12:50 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 18 (ANI): Harry Potter author JK Rowling is joining hands with joined rival fantasy writer Philip Pullman in a bid to block plans by publishers to put age guidance ...
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July 4th, 2008 - 12:27 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 4 (ANI): Kylie Minogue has topped a list of the women with moolah whom British men would most love to date.
The sexy Aussie singer, worth a whopping 40 million ...
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July 2nd, 2008 - 2:57 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 2 (ANI): A set of first edition Harry Potter books were sold for 17,800 pounds when they went under the hammer in Berkshire.
Published by Bloomsbury, the set of ...
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June 28th, 2008 - 5:26 pm ICT by ANI
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London, June 28 (ANI): Harry Potter creator JK Rowling will be honoured with Edinburgh's most prestigious civic award for her contribution to literature.
The 42-year-old author will be conferred with the Freedom ...
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June 20th, 2008 - 6:23 pm ICT by ANI
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London, June 20 (ANI): A Brit woman, who was inspired by JK Rowling and wrote her first novel in bookshop cafes, has now become a best-selling author.
Marina Fiorato took a leaf ...
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June 17th, 2008 - 11:39 am ICT by ANI
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London, June 17 (ANI): Harper Lees 1960 epic To Kill a Mocking Bird has been voted the Greatest Novel of All Time.
The tome, which sold 30 million copies, is about a ...
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June 17th, 2008 - 12:14 am ICT by Amrit Rashmisrisethi
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Harry Potter creator JK Rowling topped the celebrity earnings league last year with a massive £150 million.
The author beat off competition from American chat show queen Oprah Winfrey £138 million, and golfer ...
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June 13th, 2008 - 5:00 pm ICT by ANI
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London, June 13 (ANI): A tuxedo worn by 007 star Daniel Craig in Casino Royale is set to be up for grabs at a movie memorabilia auction in London later this ...
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June 12th, 2008 - 1:39 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 12 (ANI): Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey has topped Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Celebrity for the second year running.
The 54-year-old retained her position as the ...
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June 11th, 2008 - 6:34 pm ICT by ANI
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Melbourne , June 11 (ANI): An 800-word handwritten prequel to the Harry Potter series by author JK Rowling has fetched a whopping 52,023.72 dollars in a charity auction in London .
The ...
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May 29th, 2008 - 1:32 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 29 (ANI): British author J K Rowling has written an 800-word prequel to the Harry Potter series for charity.
The book, which was written almost a year after the seventh ...
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May 19th, 2008 - 1:14 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 19 (ANI): Theyve sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, and made author JK Rowling an estimated 560 million pounds fortune, but that still hasnt stopped Children's Laureate Michael ...
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May 17th, 2008 - 2:00 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 17 (ANI): He was dubbed as the worlds worst poet, but now Scottish Bard William McGonagall has had the last laugh, for his odes have raked in more money ...
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May 9th, 2008 - 4:02 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 9 (ANI): She might be starring in the Harry Potter movies, but English actress Julie Walters says that she hates JK Rowling's books of the same name.
Walters, who plays ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 1:50 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 5 (ANI): She may have been named as the most popular childrens author, but JK Rowling is certainly not popular among some of the Harvard students, for they consider ...
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April 25th, 2008 - 12:40 pm ICT by admin
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London, April 25 (ANI): Leading authors of Bloomsbury, the publishing house behind the Harry Potter phenomenon, are leaving the hardback publisher, because of one common reason - JK Rowling.
According to a ...
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April 15th, 2008 - 5:03 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Apr 15 (ANI): JK Rowling testified April 14 that she has been plundered by the author of an encyclopedia based on her blockbuster Harry Potter series.
The wizard creator and Warner ...
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