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# Harry Potter author JK Rowling wins Hans Christian Andersen award
## JK Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, has won the Hans Christian Andersen
Literature Prize.
![JK Rowling holds her HC Andersen Literature Prize 2010 ][1]
JK Rowling holds her HC Andersen Literature Prize 2010 Photo: REUTERS
6:05PM BST 19 Oct 2010
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She is the first recipient of the 500,000 kroner (£59,000) award, which was
handed out on Tuesday at a ceremony in Odense, Andersen's hometown.
The prize is given to a person who can be compared with Andersen, the
[**Danish**][3] writer who was born in 1805 and wrote some 160 fairy tales and
poems before his death in 1875.
Rowling said the author of such classics as "The Little Mermaid" and the "The
Ugly Duckling" had "created indestructible, eternal characters."
Rowling's seven books about the boy wizard have sold more than 400 million
copies worldwide and have been translated into many languages.
Earlier this month she was named the most influential woman in Britain by the
National Magazine Company.
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