Indonesian 'Potter' translator eager for Book 7

Associated Press — Translator Listiani Srisanti brought J.K. Rowling’s magical tales about Harry Potter to life for millions of Indonesians — even after doctors diagnosed her with cancer and told her she had only a few months to live.

Fortunately, they were wrong.


The 53-year-old says she’s beaten back the disease and, like other fans in the world’s fourth most populous nation, is eagerly awaiting publication of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final book in the series.

Srisanti, who has translated all six other Harry Potter books into Indonesian, will get to work translating immediately, a process that could take months.

“I don’t know how long it will take,” she said, adding even though she is a production manager at PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, the local publisher of the Harry Potter series, she won’t get her hands on a copy before Saturday’s launch.

“It depends on how thick the novel is and its level of difficulty,” said Srisanti, who can hardly wait to find out what happens to the schoolboy wizard.

Srisanti, who was born to a family of book lovers in the Central Java provincial capital of Semarang, thought her life was over when she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004. Doctors said the cancer cells had spread all over her body and gave her only two months to live. But three years and 24 rounds of chemotherapy later, she’s is in remission.

“I’m grateful to God,” said Srisanti. “I’m also eager to see what happens to Harry.” Read More..

Introduction to Harry Potter

Euforia Harry Potter is around the world.
But did u known better about Harry Potter is?
The author behind this caracter is J. K. Rowling (English author) about an adolescent boy named Harry Potter. The story is mostly set at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for young wizards and witches, and focuses on Harry Potter's fight against the evil wizard Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents as part of his plan to take over the wizarding world.



Since the release of the first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (retitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States) in 1997, the books have gained immense popularity, critical acclaim and commercial success worldwide, spawning films, video games and assorted merchandise. The six books published to date have collectively sold more than 325 million copies[2] and have been translated into more than 63 languages. The seventh and last book in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is scheduled to be released on 21 July 2007. Publishers announced a record-breaking 12 million copies for the first print run in the U.S. alone.

The success of the novels has made Rowling the highest earning novelist in literary history. English language versions of the books are published by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic Press in the United States, Allen & Unwin in Australia and Raincoast Books in Canada.

The first five books have been made into highly successful motion pictures by Warner Bros. The sixth, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, is set to begin filming in September 2007, and has a scheduled release of 21 November 2008. Read More..