When talking about the Harry Potter fantasy series, people cannot help but remember the famous British female novelist with the pen name J. K. Rowling. The book series is loved by millions of readers around the world and honored with many noble awards. However, up to now, there are still many untold things about female writers – a strange “phenomenon” in British literature.

Joanne “Jo” Rowling, born July 31, 1965 (pen name J. K. Rowling; Robert Galbraith), is a British novelist and author of the famous fantasy series Harry Potter. In 2007, after the resounding success of Harry Potter 7 and Harry Potter 5, she was considered one of the 25 artists of 2007; was awarded the Legion of Honor on February 3, 2009 for his outstanding talent in children’s literature. In 2010, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Literary Prize.

Living with refugees

In interviews with the media, Rowling revealed that she had to deal with the refugee issue and public opinion was always waiting to see how she handled this issue as a famous female writer. The petition challenged J. K. Rowling to open “18 empty rooms” for Muslim refugees. The above event was initiated by American writer Mike Cernovich, who is little known in the literary world but is famous for writing about current US President Donald Trump.

Mike Cernovich asked her to help provide housing for 100 refugees. Many people thought this was an insensitive, political proposal, but the majority supporting Mike Cernovich increased unexpectedly and was very specific. Writers are required to accept at least 18 refugees over a period of 8 years. This number is equivalent to 18 empty bedrooms of J. K. Rowling. Of these, 14 refugees are men because 75 percent of current refugees are men. With more than 56 thousand signatures and unexpectedly, Rowling agreed… despite knowing for sure that there would be many complications even though the cost for the above number of people was not worth it.

Never been homeless

There is information that Rowling was homeless while she was pregnant with a series of famous stories, and even rumored to have had to live in her car. Rowling herself responded to the above information in her welcome speech to Harvard graduates, saying that she was forced to live on state benefits. Rowling felt unlucky, her marriage was broken and she was unemployed with a child dependent on her, but she described her failure as liberating and allowing her to focus more on her career. write books.

However, the truth was revealed in an interview with the American newspaper The New Yorker, Rowling only lived in poor conditions for a few months, before a friend helped her get a nicer apartment, completely useless. must come up from “horizontal” homeless.

With her daughter by her side, Rowling spent hours in her brother-in-law’s cafe, creating some of her favorite witch characters. She lived in despair after her ex-husband went to Scotland to find her and their daughter, completing her first novel while living on state benefits. Rowling used to write books in many cafes, especially Nicolson Cafe, owned by her brother-in-law Roger Moore.

The first novel faced much criticism

As of 2013, there were 450 million Harry Potter books sold worldwide, becoming the best-selling book series in history, translated into 75 languages. The Harry Potter book series is considered to have changed an entire generation. Harry Potter merchandise has so far sold more than £1 billion worldwide. JK Rowling became the richest novel author in the world and the richest woman in the UK.

After finishing writing the Harry Potter series, Rowling decided to pause the children’s series and move on to writing her first novel for adults, called The Vacancy Casual. When the book was released, it encountered many problems. criticize. The New York Times assessed: “… not only disappointing but also boring”. The book deals with social issues, is dark and poignant. The language in the book is somewhat bold and informal, very different from the style expressed by the female writer in the adventures of the little wizard Harry Potter.

According to Rowling, “The Gap” deals with social issues, mortality and morality, which were the two things that haunted her the most when writing this book. Although it was criticized mercilessly, just a few years after its release, The Vacancy Casual brought in a lot of money for HBO, simply named after Rowling, and was even made into a movie by the BBC. According to Philip Stone, editor of The Bookseller magazine, The Vacancy Casual will be one of the most successful publications of the 21st century and fans are certainly looking forward to the book because this is the first work. after the Harry Potter series for adults.

Harry Potter was burned once

If you go to Twitter, you can see that Rowling is not the biggest fan of US President Donald Trump. In fact, Rowling is not satisfied with many things that Donald Trump did before even becoming the owner of the White House. Rowling’s reports and tweets touched on many sensitive controversial aspects that Mr. Trump raised, including gender discrimination and a number of other hot topics that Rowling disagreed with. But this is not the reason why Rowling’s tweets are of interest to many people, and this incident also makes many people want to boycott Rowling’s works, simply because she expressed her opinion. its politics.

Media attention to Rowling’s tweets caused more people to turn out to support Trump. As a result, leading to the opposite effect, some Rowling fans (both old and new) turned away and burned Harry Potter and the DVDs. This action is like they hate Lord Voldemort – the main villain in the Harry Potter series.

Even though her political views are not in the same direction or against Donald Trump, public opinion admits that Rowling deserves many awards for her witty skills. In one of Rowling’s hilarious tweets, she wrote, that the smoke from burning Harry Potter and the DVD may be toxic, but she does not object to the fans’ decision.

Give away most of the money you earn

After more than a decade since Rowling was honored by Forbes magazine as humanity’s first literary billionaire, her financial situation has changed a lot. She never went bankrupt, did not have to return to living on government subsidies, but still lived well through her writing career. However, in 2012, she was placed on Forbes’ Falling Assets List (FDL) after spending most of her earnings on charity. She has donated more than 160 million USD since she became famous, but this decision still does not affect the assets she has earned, except she is no longer on Forbes’ list of billionaires.

One of the largest charities that Rowling created is the Lumos Foundation (LF). This is a charity that protects homeless children and ends with educational institutions.

According to The Sunday Times, there are many things that the public does not know: the entire amount of money earned from two works, including Quidditch Through The Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. mysteries and where to find them), the two Harry Potter spin-off works were donated by Rowling to the British charity fund called Comic Relief. Therefore, when mentioning the reason why Rowling was placed on the FDL list, Forbes emphasized this very honorable reason that Rowling did.