The British author JK Rowling, author of the series that caught the imagination of millions of children with the magical world of Harry Potter, 50 years old today at the height of his success, waiting to release a new film and a play.
Far from resting on their laurels or be pigeonholed in one genre, Rowling married with three children, has managed to reinvent itself with the publication of books for adults, dynamic web page "Potter more" and projects of cinema and theater.
Several original initiatives are on the horizon of the popular author, who shot to stardom in 1997 with the publication of his first novel, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," which was followed by six more in the series.
In the summer of 2016, JK Rowling will take the stage at the Palace Theatre in London the story about childhood's most famous young wizard in the world, with the title "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" (Harry Potter and the Cursed Children), which It will also include details about the lives of their parents Lily and James Potter.
Rowling has advanced to the play will serve to disseminate "the untold part" Potter's life and will be "a real treat" for fans of the book series, although he pointed out that the script is not written by her.
In November of the same year, it debuts on the big screen adaptation of his novel "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find" on the "magizinlogo" Newt Scamander, magical creatures expert who writes a textbook for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, attended by Harry and his friends.
Rowling yes this time signed the script of the film based on the 2001 book, which will be played by the Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne.
But not all the successes of the British have to do with the world of Harry Potter, because in 2012 she published her first adult novel, "An unexpected vacancy" which was well received and was taken to the television in the UK.
Meanwhile, the writer was preparing in the shadows a series of detective novels, the first entitled "cuckoo", published in 2013 under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Although Rowling wanted to experience what it was signed without his name and "get a different answer," secrecy did not last long, since the British Sunday "The Sunday Times" uncovered the pie and made known to the real author of the novel.
This series of detective novels, a genre which the author feels predilection, continued with the publication of another issue entitled "silkworm" (2014), under the same pseudonym and also became a bestseller.
JK Rowling, now one of the largest fortunes in the UK, he began writing a series of books that made millionaire in a train journey from Manchester (northern England) to King's Cross station in London.
At that time she was a single mother, separated from her Portuguese husband and depended on social assistance.
It's been 18 years since the first volume in the series of Harry Potter, which has been translated into 73 languages and have been sold 450 million copies in more than 200 countries was published.
Born July 31, 1965 in Yate, south-east of England, Joanne Rowling has received numerous awards, including the distinction of Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his commitment to children's literature, the Prince Award Asturias Concord, the Legion of Honour of France and the Danish Hans Christian Andersen Award.