The American magazine Forbes published a list of 15 most wealthy world authors. James Patterson is well ahead of the pack, followed by Jeff Kinney and J. K. Rowling. The common point of the trio: they all write for Youth
Their pen is gold. Like every year, Forbes magazine unveiled Thursday, August 4th ranking of the wealthiest writers. Not surprisingly, the record is exclusively Anglo-Saxon and American James Patterson is well ahead with $ 269 million garnered in the last twelve months. This helped graphomane an armada of authors who lend their pen has published no less than twelve pounds over the period.
It uses much of his energy, his patter and his fortune defend reading, sometimes dramatically, with younger people to educate and train future community of readers. In France, it remains relatively unknown to the general public even though it is issued for his detective novels for adults (Lattes) and for his children’s books (Hachette).
The second of the charts Jeff Kinney has won, meanwhile, “only” $ 19.5 million. If his name means nothing to you, talk to your children involved in providing Diary of a Wimpy Kid. They strongly acquiesce. Jeff Kinney, friendly artistic director of a video game company, is incidentally the author of a number one hit with volumes released every year with clockwork rigor.
Greg, his hero, ordinary preteen struggling with overwhelming family and friends much more popular is the American college students that Titeuf is the French schoolchildren, an icon. During his visit to Paris in early 2016, the author said: “I thought a lot about this global success as I describe a typical American teenager. I was recently in Brazil, I did not speak the language, I did not have the same culture but my book liked young Brazilians. Adolescence I describe is universal. All children can recognize Greg, in its imperfections. This is the bad boy side of each. At the same time, he laughed. “
Most people also derive a significant portion of their revenues adaptation rights to display their work.
We also note the return, leads the standings, the British JK Rowling, third on the list with earnings of $ 19 million from his pen or rather royalties that continue to cause Harry Potter. This should not stop in 2016 with the sold-out launch of the London theater Harry Potter and the child cursed and the release of the eponymous book (it will be released in France in October Gallimard jeunesse)
followed in ranking the usual author of bestsellers such as John Grisham (18 million), Stephen King (15 million), Daniele Steel and 129 romances meter (15 million) but Nora Roberts also phagocyte ebooks (15 million) and EL James (14 million), the queen of eroticism that continues to reap the benefits of its series Fifty Shades. It may be noted that most of the people on the list also derive a significant portion of their revenues adaptation rights to display their work.
This is the case of George RR Martin, the father of Iron Throne (9.5 million), which will soon see the release of the final season of the television series pulled his saga. This is also true for Veronica Roth, the youngest of the list, whose saga for teenagers Divergent has been brought to a successful movie. The US 27-year total revenues of $ 10 million as John Green, author of Our Stars that has nothing written for some time or Rick Riordan, bestselling author . of epic films about antiquity dedicated to teenagers
Finally, one still notices the beautiful performance of an author almost unknown there for some time: the Englishwoman Paula Hawkins. This novelist between in tenth place with his one bestseller, psychological thriller The Girl on the Train (Sonatine), the film version is scheduled in October. That should raise a little more business.
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