Finishing with Harry Potter was more painful than divorce, announced JK Rowling, the person behind of the boy wizard chartbuster tales..
The billionaire breakthrough writer, who finished her seventh and last Harry Potter book last year, was in tears as she was honored for her exceptional accomplishment in London.
“It has been the worst break-up of my life — far worse than splitting up with any man,” the JK Rowling gushed at the audience at the Dorchester Hotel for the South Bank Show awards.
“But it has also been wonderful to stop and draw breath and think, ‘My God, look what’s happened with an idea I had 17 years ago on a train’.”
The Harry Potter series have broken the records and was able to sell around 350 million reproductions globally and are translated into 65 different languages. The most recent, “Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows“, debuted July last year.
Lord Richard Attenborough, expert British actor and director who handed the award, chuckled that he had overlooked out on one of the best-selling copyrights of all time.
“I’ve got a great complaint against the recipient. I joined (actors’ union) Equity in 1941 and I have been a regular member ever since, therefore I am due a certain amount of respect in these circumstances.”
He also added: “I think I must be the only English actor of my generation who has got absolutely bugger all out of this extraordinary series that has been read by millions and made into movies.â€
“Surely there must have been something I could have played? Even just a few lines here and there? Don’t think I didn’t try!”
JK Rowling exposed last November that she was currently on assignment for a “half-finished book for children” which almost certainly be her next.
