J.K. Rowling attended the British Book Awards in London last night, where the author received the Outstanding Achievement award. At the ceremony Jo said she was thrilled "and quite pleased that I haven't been pensioned off just yet with a lifetime achievement award".
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was quoted:
“She has joined a distinguished line of British authors whose work has got the whole country reading,’’ Brown said in a presentation speech made available before tonight’s ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Her books “will be read for many years to come by successive generations,’’ he said. He continued noting “She has been incredibly generous with her time and her money supporting some of the U.K.’s most deserving charities, but always in a quiet way,’’ he said in the prepared remarks.”
You can see pictures of Jo, with her husband Neil Murray, at the awards via Getty and Rex.
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