Harry Potter creator JK Rowling beats Dan Brown and Stephen King to top Forbes' list of the highest paid authors with earnings of £72million this year 中國日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng) 2017-08-04 13:20分享到 自哈利·波特系列小說完結(jié)后,英國作家JK·羅琳去年又憑借《哈利·波特與被詛咒的孩子》舞臺(tái)劇,、同名劇本出版物,,及該系列衍生電影《神奇動(dòng)物在哪里》在全世界再掀魔法熱潮,瘋狂吸金9500萬美元(約合人民幣6.38億元),,也因此登上2017福布斯作家收入排行榜首位,。這是近十年來她首次登頂。
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has been named the world's most highly paid author with earnings of £72m this year. Rowling beat the likes of Dan Brown, Stephen King and John Grisham to top Forbes' list of the 10 highest earners in the global industry for the first time in almost 10 years.
The announcement comes soon after her legions of worldwide fans celebrated the 20th anniversary of her first installment of the boy wizard series.
She has written a further six Harry Potter titles, which have been turned into eight blockbuster feature films, and she last year made her screenwriting debut with a prequel movie, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.
On Wednesday it was announced that the smash-hit stage play Harry Potter And The Cursed Child will move to Broadway next year. The mother-of-three, 52, first began writing about the wizarding world while struggling to make ends meet living as a single mother on benefits in Edinburgh. The books' popularity soon made her a multi-millionaire and she has since released several other novels, founded children's charity Lumos, and amassed more than 11 million Twitter followers keen to keep track of her regularly shared thoughts on political and social issues. Aside from Rowling, the US business magazine's list also includes British authors Paula Hawkins and EL James - whose respective novels The Girl On The Train and 50 Shades Of Grey have both been turned into major movies in recent years - while the others are all American. List organizers added that Game Of Thrones creator George RR Martin, The Fault In Our Stars writer John Green and Divergent trilogy author Veronica Roth, just failed to make the top 10. WORLD'S BEST PAID AUTHORS 1. JK Rowling (Harry Potter) - $95,000,000 2. James Patterson (Women’s Murder Club) - $87,000,000 3. Jeff Kinney (Diary Of A Wimpy Kid) - $21,000,000 4. Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) - $20,000,000 5. Stephen King (The Dark Tower) - $15,000,000 6. John Grisham (The Innocent Man) - $14,000,000 7. Nora Roberts (Year One) - $14,000,000 8. Paula Hawkins (The Girl On The Train) - $13,000,000 9. EL James (Fifty Shades Of Grey) - $11,500,000 10. Danielle Steel (The Duchess) - $11,000,000 英文來源:每日郵報(bào) |
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