This is third novel in the Harry Potter series written by J. K. Rowling. The book was published on 8 July 1999. The novel won the 1999 Whitbread Book Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the 2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel, and was short-listed for other awards, including the Hugo. This placed the novel among the most-honored works of fantasy in recent history. A film based on the novel was released on 31 May 2004, in the United Kingdom and 4 June 2004 in the U. S. And many other countries. This is the only novel in the series that does not feature Lord Voldemort in some form. The novel sold 55 million copies (as did the two that followed) after its 1999 publication.