Rowling wins Outstanding Achievement Award

Posted: Friday, Apr 11, 2008 at 2220 hrs IST
Updated: Friday, Apr 11, 2008 at 2220 hrs IST

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London, Apr 10 : JK Rowling, the billionaire author of the Harry Potter novels, has won an Outstanding Achievement Award and praise from Prime Minister Gordon Brown at this year’s Galaxy British Book Awards, better known as the Nibbies.

“She has joined a distinguished line of British authors whose work has got the whole country reading, and whose books will be read for many years to come by successive generations,” the Prime Minister said in his presentation speech at the Grosvenor House hotel last night.

“She has been incredibly generous with her time and her money supporting some of the UK’s most deserving charities, but always in a quiet way,” Brown said.

On her part, Rowling said she was pleased.

—PTI

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