JK羅琳成本年度全球收入最高的作家

"Harry Potter" creator JK Rowling has been named the world's most highly paid author with earnings of 72 million pounds this year.

《哈利·波特》的作者JK·羅琳今年的收入達7200萬英鎊，獲評全球收入最高的作家。

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.

羅琳擊敗了丹·布朗、史蒂芬·金和約翰·格里森姆等同行，近10年來首次登頂美國商業雜誌《福布斯》評選的全球10大高薪作家排行榜。

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, Scotland.

這位現年52歲、三個孩子的母親，是在蘇格蘭的愛丁堡開始創作關於魔法世界的文章，當時她是以一個單身母親的身份努力維持生計。

The books' popularity soon made her a multimillionaire and she has since released several other novels, founded children's charity Lumos, and amassed more than 11 million Twitter followers.

這套書籍的暢銷，很快使她成爲了一名百萬富翁，之後她又出版了好幾本其它小說、建立了兒童慈善機構“熒光閃爍”，並在Twitter上獲得了超過1100萬的關注者。

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.

除羅琳外，上榜的英國作家還有《火車上的女孩》的作者保拉·霍金斯和《五十度灰》的作者EL·傑姆斯，這兩部小說近年來都被拍成了大片。而其他上榜作家均來自美國。

However, "Game Of Thrones" creator George RR Martin, "The Fault In Our Stars" writer John Green and "Divergent" trilogy author Veronica Roth, failed to make the top 10.

不過《權力的遊戲》的作者喬治·RR·馬丁、《星運裏的錯》的作者約翰·格林以及《分歧者》三部曲的作者維羅尼卡·羅斯均未進入榜單前10名。