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საკუთარი შესაძლებლობების რწმენამ ჯოან როულინგი მსოფლიოში გავლენიან მწერლად აქცია, მისმა უშრეტმა ფანტაზიამ კი შექმნა Wizarding world, რომელმაც ჰარი პოტერის ჯადოსნური სამყაროს ირგვლივ არაერთი ადამიანი გააერთიანა.
როულინგის ცხოვრებაც მისივე შემოქმედების მსგავსად ზღაპრულია. ცხოვრების ყველაზე მძიმე პერიოდში დაწყებული წერა და საკუთარ წარმოსახვაში აღმოჩენილი ძლიერი ზეგავლენის სამყარო მისი ცხოვრების განუყოფელი ნაწილი გახდა. ერთ დღესაც, მატარებლით მგზავრობისას, უეცრად მოუვიდა იდეა, რომელსაც გაუჩერებლად წერდა 4 საათის განმავლობაში. მას შემდეგ არ არსებობდა დღე, რომელიც ჰარი პოტერზე მუშაობაში არ გაეტარებინა და სწორედ წერა ეხმარებოდა ბევრი სიძნელის გადალახვაშიც. მძიმე დეპრესიის პერიოდში ჯოანს მხოლოდ საბეჭდი მანქანა და იდეა ჰქონდა, რომელიც ფურცლებზე უნდა გადმოეტანა. მას ღრმად სწამდა, რომ მისი ზღაპრული ფიქრები დღის სინათლეს აუცილებლად იხილავდნენ.
როდესაც წერის პირველი წიგნი – “ჰარი პოტერი და ფილოსოფიური ქვა” დაიწერა, ჯოანმა არაერთ გამომცემლობაში იმ იმედით მიიტანა, რომ მოეწონებოდათ. სამწუხაროდ, უარი ბევრჯერ უთხრეს მანამ, სანამ შემდეგ ერთ- ერთმა ცნობილმა გამომცემლობის „Bloomsbury“- მისი მეპატრონის შვილმა არ წაიკითხა და გაგრძელება არ მოითხოვა. პატარა გოგონამ ის განსაკუთრებული რაღაც შეამჩნია ნაწერებში, რაც ვერ მოახერხეს სხვა წიგნის გამომცემლობებმა. მალე ყველამ გაიცნო ბიჭი, სახელად ჰარი პოტერი და როულინგის ნატვრა, მისი ჩანაწერების ოდესმე წიგნად დაბეჭდვაზე, ზღაპრულად ახდა. წარმატებამაც არ დააყოვნა და დღეს ყველა ასაკის მკითხველს თანაბრად იზიდავს ჰარი პოტერი, რომელიც მისივე ავტორის მსგავსად ბავშვობიდან განსაკუთრებული ცხოვრებით გამოირჩეოდა.
ბევრიც თვლის რომ მათი ბავშვობა მოსაწყენი იქნებოდა ჰარი პოტერის გარეშე. ჯოანს ყოველთვის მიაჩნდა რომ წარმოსახვის უნარი პირდაპირ კავშირშია გარესამყაროს პროცესებთან, ხოლო ჩვენ ყველას შეგვიძლია სამყარო გავხადოთ უკეთესი და გავხდეთ მაგალითი ბევრი ადამიანისთვის. ჯოან როულინგი არის ავტორი, რომელიც თავისი დაუსრულებელი ფანტაზიით და გამოვლილი გამოცდილებით ყოველთვის იქნება რაღაც ჯადოსნურის საწყისი ჩვენს ცხოვრებაში.
]]>“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”- J.K ROWLING
J.K. Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter series, has taken the bestseller lists across the world by storm with her new book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It has charted in the top three in nine of the 10 Nielsen territories bestseller lists (February 2016 to February 2017).
The book generated the most sales in the United States, with 4.4 million copies sold. That said, one in every 45 Britons bought a copy in the eight months after its release, a striking figure for a medium-sized country. The Cursed Child makes up about half of Rowling’s UK value and 65% of her US volume. It helped drive up the sales of the original Harry Potter books as well. Her screenplay for Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them also sold well (370,724 copies in the UK and 690,336 units in the US).
The top 10 selling authors for the UK are mostly British, with only one American (James Patterson). The Americans, in reverse, only have two Britons (Rowling and Paula Hopkins). Yet, Rowling topped both lists.
Source: “Rowling rules the roost”, Kiera O’Brien, The Bookseller Daily, P.10
]]>Everyone’s favorite billionaire Bill Gates bought ‘Codex Leicester’, one of Leonardo Di Vinci’s scientific journals for $30.8 million.

‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ by Marcel Proust is the longest book in the world at 9,609,000 characters. Translated into Remembers of Things Past, the book tells the story of the narrator’s experiences growing up.

Dahl served in the Royal Air Force during World War II and also tested chocolates for Cadbury’s while he was at school. (I guess we know where his inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory came from).

In Victor Hugo’s novel, Les Miserables, you can find a sentence that is 823 words long. However, there may be other sentences that surpasses this length. But this one is worth knowing.

Our favorite author who goes by initials, actually doesn’t have a middle name. After a suggestion from her publisher, she chose her grandmother’s name, Kathleen.

Dickens believed that sleeping facing North, would improve his writing. He also carried a compass when travelling to make sure he was facing the right direction and he always touched things 3 times for luck.

The 1400 page novel was copied around 7 times by Leo Tolstoy’s wife, Sophia, by hand – that’s love.

Oxford English Dictionary notes the earliest use of the word ‘wicked’ to mean good/cool to be from Fitzgerald’s novel ‘This Side of Paradise’. He is also thought to have used the word T-shirt for the first time.

The Governor of Hunan Province in China banned Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland because he believed that animals should not be given the power to use the language of humans and to put animals and humans on the same level would be ‘disastrous’.

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Author Facts: Roald Dahl
As one of the world’s best loved children’s authors, the last thing you’d expect of Roald Dahl is that he’d be a real life James Bond. During World War II, Dahl got a taste of the bad guys, an action-packed lifestyle and a fair share of his very own dashing Dahl girls as a British undercover spy.
A dab hand in the RAF, Dahl took down German pilots single handedly. According to letters he kept during his time as wing commander, after a long day’s work, his sexual conquests ranged from the heiress of a Standard Oil fortune to a glamorous congresswoman, with countless other women falling at his feet.
As if that wasn’t enough of a Bond lifestyle for you, after a victorious career in the RAF, Dahl was sent to America to persuade the wealthy and influential that their country was needed in the war effort, and it turns out he was rather successful in the sheets there, too. Queue another string of willing women–even, as he told fellow philanderer President Roosevelt–the Crown Princess of Norway. So next time you think of Dahl as the jolly old author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the ever-so lovely BFG, just remember that when he was alive, he could quite as easily kill you–or your marriage–as he could write a successful children’s book.
From flying Brits to flying monkeys, L. Frank Baum, the author of the Wizard of Oz, took a serious detour before making it onto the yellow brick road. Fifteen or so years before the Wizard of Oz was released, Baum had turned his hand to a dramatically different kind of book; specifically, one about chickens.It turns out that Baum was quite a chicken aficionado and his first book, The Book of Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs, which really did have that lengthy title, was all about looking after his feathered friends.
Now selling for more than $100 on rare book collection sites (and Amazon), Baum’s fowl non-fiction focused on what was an incredibly valuable breed of chicken. So strong was his love for the farm fowl that he ran a regular trade journal about chickens for months before he released his book. His love for the breed didn’t stop there. In the sequel to the Wizard of Oz, Baum brought in Billina; a sharp beaked, talkative yellow hen that replaced the beloved Toto. What a shame that his true passion never saw the same fame as his band of merry misfits.
As one of the most famous authors in the world and proud penner of the fastest selling novel in the universe, J. K. Rowling is a literary force to be reckoned with. But do you know the story behind her initials? The author’s full name is Joanne Rowling, but interestingly, she has no middle name.
Sadly, the special ‘K’ comes from a suggestion by her publishers. They speculated that at the time of Harry Potter’s launch, a wizarding book written by a female author might put people off and thus keep the book on the shelves.
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