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Prime Minister Gordon Brown presented her with the award and had nice things to say.
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"She has joined a distinguished line of British authors whose work has got the whole country reading,'' Brown said in a presentation speech made available before tonight's ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Her books "will be read for many years to come by successive generations,'' he said.
You can view pictures of Jo at the event here in our gallery.
Commenting on her prize, Rowling said she was thrilled "and quite pleased that I haven't been pensioned off just yet with a lifetime achievement award".
UPDATE #2: A video interview with Jo at the awards can be seen below;
And.I.try.not.to.Dream.but.them.possible.Schemes, Swim.around,wanna.Drown.me.in.Synch.and.I,don't.know.
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how,to.Slow.it.down.my.Mind's.racing.from.chasing.Pirates. x Celandine x Daphne x Garret x Jillian x
Ability is nothing without Opportunity | | Creativity is Intelligence having FUN
Jo looks exceptionally pretty here
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++Tenacius ++🐦++ Salander++🐦++ Deo ++🐦++ Vickers ++🐦++ Huxley ++🐦+ Aquila++ Yeah thats what crazy is, when its broken you say theres nothing to fix++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++And you pray that everything will be okay, while you're making all the same mistakes
Hogwarts RPG Name: Margaret Jacqueline Atkinson Morris
Fifth Year
Potter’s Princess A+ FangGirl
Woohoo! Congrats Jo!
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I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It wasreal. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
No matter how long you're away from it, there's always a way back.
Rowling receives honor at Galaxy Book awards (UPDATE #2) 
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She looks very nice!
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Yeah thats what crazy is, when its broken you say theres nothing to fix++++++++++++++++++++
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Congrats Jo! 
