List of awards and nominations received by J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling, known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She has won numerous accolades for her "Harry Potter" book series, including general literature prizes, honours in children's literature and speculative fiction awards. In 2000, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" was nominated for the Whitbread Book of the Year where it competed against a book by a Nobel prize laureate. The award body gave it the children's prize instead (worth half the cash amount); some scholars view this as exposing  a literary prejudice against children's books. The series has won multiple British Book Awards, beginning with the Children's Book of the Year for "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in 1997 and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" in 1998, followed by a shift to the more general Book of the Year for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" in 2006. The World Science Fiction Convention presented the 2001 Hugo Award to the fourth novel, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". Rowling's early career awards include the Order of the British Empire (OBE ) for services to children's literature in 2000, and three years later, the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award for Concord. She won the British Book Awards' Author of the Year and Outstanding Achievement prizes over the span of the "Harry Potter" series. Following the series' completion, "Time" named Rowling a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, citing the social, moral and political inspiration she gave the "Harry Potter" fandom. Two years later, she was recognised as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy; leading magazine editors then named her the "Most Influential Woman  in the UK" the following October. Later awards include the Freedom of the City of London in 2012 and for her services to literature and philanthropy, the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2017. Academic bodies have bestowed multiple honours on Rowling. She has received honorary degrees from the University of Aberdeen; the University of St Andrews; Dartmouth College; the University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh Napier University; the University of Exeter (which she attended) and Harvard University. Rowling spoke at Harvard's 2008 commencement ceremony; the same year, she also won University College Dublin's James Joyce Award. Her  other honours include fellowship of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE) and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE). Rowling's other works have also received recognition. The fifth volume of the "Cormoran Strike" series won the British Book Awards' Crime and Thriller category in 2021. At the 2011 British Academy Film Awards, the "Harry Potter" film series was named an Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema; Rowling shared this honour with producer David Heyman and members of the cast and crew.