| 《哈利波特》─ J. K. 罗琳的神来之笔-1 "I really wrote it for me, It was what I found funny and what I liked". "我其实是为自己而写。那是我觉得有趣而且是我喜欢的。" Those are the words of J K Rowling, author of the enormously popular "Harry Potter" books. 这是超级畅销书《哈利波特》的作者J. K. 罗琳所说的话。 The quote refers to the first in a series of novels featuring a young character who has carved out a permanent place for his creator in the world of children's literature.这段引言指的是一系列以一位年轻主人翁为主角的小说的第一部，而这位小说主角已为其创作者在儿童文学界中取得不朽地位。 Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in England in 1965, and wrote her first story at the age of six. 乔安妮·凯瑟琳·罗琳1965年在英国出生，六岁时写了她的第一篇故事。 She was in her mid-20s when the idea for the Harry Potter novels came to her, during a long train ride. 二十四、五岁时，在一次长途火车旅行中，她想到了撰写哈利波特这部小说的点子。 By the end of that journey, she says, the character of Harry and the school for wizards which he attends were more or less fully formed in her mind. 她说，旅途结束时，哈利这个角色和他就读的魔法学院或多或少已在她脑海中成形了。 It would be several years, however, before the novel was completed. 然而，这部小说的完成却是几年以后的事。 By that time, Rowling had been through a failed marriage. 当时罗琳已经历了一次失败的婚姻。 Living on welfare as a single parent, she wrote about Harry Potter while sitting in an Edinburgh café with her daughter asleep beside her. 作为一个靠福利金生活的单亲母亲，她坐在爱丁堡的咖啡馆中写着哈利波特，女儿睡在她的身旁。 |
