Сократите текст joanne rowling is one of the most famous english writers in the world. her harry potter series has been translated into many languages. joanne kathleen rowling was born on the 31st of july in 1965, in bristol, england. in her childhood she dreamt of becoming a writer. at the age of six joanne wrote her first book about a rabbit. like hermione granger, one of the characters of harry potter books, she was a know-it-all and a bookworm and her favourite subjects at school were english and foreign languages. after graduating from exeter university, she worked as a secretary and then went to portugal to teach english. rowling had busy afternoons and evenings, but free mornings when she could write. in portugal she married a tv-journalist, but the marriage wasn't successful, so she returned to britain with her 4-month-old daughter. joanne settled in edinburgh, scotland. the idea of a book about a young magician occurred to her in 1990, when she was going by train from manchester to london. she quickly invented the main plot and some of the characters and in july 1997, harry potter and the sorcerer's stone was published. it became an immediate success and was published in eight countries. there are seven harry potter books, five films based on the novels, harry potter computer games and a lot of goods with the harry potter trademark.