Postado por Tradutores | 2000, Biografia, Curiosidades, Livro 1 |
Mary Ambrose, “A mãe de Harry Potter está na área. O fenômeno de publicações J.K Rowling surge de um armário de vassouras para conhecer a mídia”, O Globo e Mail (de Toronto,Canadá), 28 de Março de 2000. Londres...
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“Book hero to see girls aren’t yucky,” Austin American-Statesman, 28 March 2000
Author J.K. Rowling said Monday that her beloved Harry Potter will soon discover the charms of girls. “Last time you met him, he was 13,” Rowling said at the British Library. “He’s 14 now, and he’s started to realize girls are quite interesting.”
“I tend to think that if someone is sufficiently engaged in one of the books, he’s not going to be too disappointed if, at some point, his hero holds hands with a little girl.”
Rowling added that she would never tackle issues such as drugs or teen-age pregnancies in a children’s book but said she would not entirely shy away from adult themes in the fourth Potter book, due out in July.
“I’ve said all along there will be death. And, yes, you see a death in book four,” she said.
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“Brace yourself, readers: Harry Potter will discover girls,” Associated Press, 27 March 2000
LONDON (AP) – Author J.K. Rowling said Monday that her beloved character Harry Potter will start to discover the magic charms of girls as his literary adventures continue.
“Last time you met him, he was 13,” Rowling said at a news conference at the British Library.
“He’s 14 now and he’s started to realize girls are quite interesting,” she said. “I tend to think that if someone is sufficiently engaged in one of the books, he’s not going to be too disappointed if, at some point, his hero holds hands with a little girl.”
Rowling added that while she would never tackle such issues as hard drugs or teen-age pregnancies in a children’s book, she also would not completely shy away from adult themes in the fourth Potter volume, which will be published simultaneously in Britain and the United States on July 8.
“I’ve said all along there will be death. And yes, you see a death in book four,” she said, declining to be more specific.
Rowling confirmed that plans for a movie based on the first Potter book are going ahead, though a director has not yet been named to replace Steven Spielberg, who bowed out.
“If Warner Bros. do what they say they are going to do, then I think we are looking at a very faithful adaptation,” she said.
She added that while the role of Harry himself had yet to be cast, she had met a “physically perfect Harry” while visiting Northern Ireland.
“All his classmates had been apparently saying the same thing to him, but I don’t know whether he can act and a Northern Ireland accent might be a bit of a problem, but we could coach him,” she said.
Sales of Rowling’s first three books have passed the 30 million mark worldwide, having been translated in 35 languages in more than 200 countries.
She vowed to turn her talents to writing adult books one day.
“There’s no way I’m ever going to be able to write anything as popular as this again,” she said, referring to the Potter series. “My comfort is that I never meant to write anything as popular as this.”
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Postado por Tradutores | 1999, Biografia, Curiosidades |
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“J.K. ROWLING: The 25 Most Intriguing People Of ’99,” People, December 31, 1999
With Harry Potter, she cast a spell that turned millions of young video-game addicts into avid readers
British author J.K. Rowling’s signature creation, Harry Potter, came to her in a kind of vision as she rode a train from Manchester to London. “I saw Harry very plainly, with his glasses and his black hair and scar,” says Rowling, 34, referring to the trademark lightning-bolt mark on her hero’s forehead. “I knew he didn’t know he was a wizard.” By trip’s end she had sketched out the plucky 11-year-old’s adventures at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And in 1997, when the first of a planned seven volumes was published in Britain, Harry began taking possession of young minds as surely as he first seized Rowling’s imagination.
By early November of this year more than 12.1 million copies of the first three books-Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban-had been sold in the U.S. On Sept. 26 they took over the top three rungs of the New York Times fiction bestseller list, and in Hollywood directors including Steven Spielberg and Rob Reiner are vying to direct a Harry Potter film due from Warner Bros. in 2001.
Among children the books inspire the kind of frenzy recently associated with Beanie Babies and Pokemon. And to most parents and teachers they’re a wish come true: paths to reading for a generation for which literature often pales next to TV and video games. At New York City’s Hunter College Elementary School, all but 4 of 49 fifth-graders have read all three books, says teacher Amy Kissel. Hannah Schwartz, owner of Children’s Book World in Haverford, Pa., thinks kids identify with Harry. “He’s not the brightest. He has some friends, but has some enemies. He’s just like they are, except he has these marvelous adventures.”
Arthur A. Levine, the Scholastic editorial director who paid $105,000 for U.S. rights to the still obscure first book in 1997, thinks the magic is “the idea that a great power lives in each of us.”
Not everyone is captivated. Some parents who fear that the books promote witchcraft have asked schools to ban them. Rowling isn’t worried though. “Children totally recognize this as an imaginary world, and I think it’s a very moral world,” insists the author, who writes in longhand in cafes near her Edinburgh home, just as she did in 1993, when, divorced and living on public assistance, she began the first book with her infant daughter Jessica, now 6, napping at her side.
In plotting Harry’s journey she has already completed a draft of the final chapter of the last book. “I constantly rewrite,” she says. “At the moment, the last word is ‘scar.'” When the time comes, no one will be sadder to close the book on her hero than Rowling herself. Writing about Harry Potter, she says, “is the most fun you can have without anyone else present.”
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