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Awards and honours
Rowling has won numerous accolades for the Harry Potter series for general literature, children's literature and speculative fiction. In 2000, 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 Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets,followed by a shift to the more general Book of the Year for Half-Blood Prince.It received speculative fiction awards such as the Hugo Award for Best Novel for 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 publication of Deathly Hallows, Time named Rowling a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, citing the social, moral, and political inspiration she gave her fans.Two years later, she was recognised as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and leading magazine editors named her the "Most Influential Woman in the UK".Later awards include the Freedom of the City of London in 2012and for her services to literature and philanthropy, the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in 2017.Academic bodies have bestowed multiple honourson Rowling including honorary degrees from the University of Exeter (which she attended)and Harvard University, where she spoke at the 2008 commencement ceremony. The same year, Rowling 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 .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.Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won a record-breaking number of Laurence Olivier Awards in 2017.