JK Rowling, author of the beloved Harry Potter books, won two awards at the first annual Quill Awards ceremony, held in New York.

The most recent book in the eagerly anticipated series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, won for Book of the Year, as well as in the Children’s Chapter Book/Middle Grade category.

Rowling, who was unable to attend the ceremony, said from her Edinburgh office, “I am thrilled and honored beyond words to receive the first-ever Quill Book of the Year Award. I am still not used to the idea that so many people across the world are intimately familiar with the characters who, for so long, I alone knew. Awards like this, where readers themselves vote, are therefore especially meaningful to me.”

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released at midnight on July 16, and sold a staggering 6.9 million copies within the first 24 hours of being released.






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