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“Coruja de autora acelera a recuperação de garota que obteve um transplante”. The Scotsman, 21 de maio de 2002. Uma garota de nove anos que obteve um transplante que salvou sua vida após um último apelo desesperado...

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Womack, Sarah. “Give loans to the poor, says Rowling,” Telegraph, 15 April 2002
J K ROWLING, the author of the Harry Potter best-sellers, has attacked the Government in the run-up to the Budget for its treatment of single parents.

The multi-millionairess and former single mother, whose support has been courted by Labour strategists, said ministers had left the poorest lone parents deeper in debt. She called for reform of the Social Fund, an emergency loans scheme helping the poor with basic items such as beds, cookers and cots.

Eighty per cent of the money paid by the fund is in the form of loans, but many applicants are deemed too poor to qualify. Those helped are often forced below benefit levels to meet repayments.

Miss Rowling, 36, said loans should be replaced with a programme of Child Development Grants focused on providing essentials for a decent home. She also wanted Opportunity Grants to help parents move from welfare to work by assisting with work-related costs such as upfront child care bills and work clothes.

Her criticisms came in a foreword to a report by three charities, the National Council for One Parent Families, the Family Welfare Association and the Child Poverty Action Group.

They follow the disclosure last week that the Government had only lifted 500,000 children out of poverty, not the 1.2 million it had claimed.

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“Rowling stops Potter radio readings,” BBC News, 8 March, 2002
JK Rowling: Her books are available in 40 languages

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has prevented a Swedish radio station from broadcasting extracts of her books.

The British author was upset when an announcer on Sveriges Radio read passages from her Harry Potter series on a children’s programme without her permission.

Swedish law allows radio and TV stations to broadcast readings of published works without approval from the author, providing they pay royalties.

But it also says the author has the right to stop broadcasters putting out their work and Rowling has made known she would only allow her books to be broadcast “unabridged”.

A spokeswoman for the author said: “Our policy is that they (the Harry Potter series) only be broadcast in their unabridged version to protect the integrity of the books.”

Rowling was alerted to the radio readings after the station contacted her agent with questions on where to send royalty money.

Gunhild Frylen, the lawyer acting for Sveriges, said: “They (Rowling and her agent) were very upset and said, ‘What do you mean you’ve read our books?’ It was very hard for them to understand that this is the law here.”

She added that, in her 35-year career, she had only known of a handful of similar cases where authors had objected to their works going on the air.

These, said Frylen, included Ernest Hemingway and Swedish writer Vilhelm Moberg.

Annika Seward Jensen from Tiden, the Swedish publishers of Rowling’s books, said their success was bound to create copyright problems.

The four Harry Potter books tell the fictional story of the young wizard Harry Potter and his adventures at Hogwarts school of magic.

They have been translated into 40 languages. and their huge popularity has become a global phenomenon, resulting in an extremely succesful movie.