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Jamila Gavin

 

Jamila was born in India in the foothills of the Himalayas. Her father was Indian and her mother English. Her earliest memories are of travelling by sea between India and England on huge ocean liners. Jamila came to live permanently in England when she was nearly twelve years old.

Jamila says that, being half Indian and half English, she got used to describing herself as 'half and half. But although it is sometimes expected that people Iike me will be confused or torn between two very different cultures, I was brought up to value and admire my duaI inheritance and I only feel enriched.'

Jamila says that she has always liked writing and telling stories, even when she was a very young child, but it was only when her own two children were beginning to read that she began taking a serious interest in children's books. Jamila also loves reading and says that she would read anything, even the back of a cornflakes packet!

There are now many more children Iike Jamila in Britain, coming from different ethnic backgrounds. She felt that there were not enough books which reflected this. All children need to read books about characters with whom they can identify and Jamila very much wanted to write for and about children of different ethnic backgrounds.

Jamila still has a few ambitions, one is sailing up the Amazon River and another is to take part in the Monte Carlo Rally!

Coram Boy won the 2000 Whitbread Book Award. The Wheel of Surya was the runner-up for the 1993 Guardian Newspaper Children's Fiction Award and shortlisted for the Federation of Children's Books Award. It is also a GCSE set book. Grandpa Chatterji has been televised for Channel 4.

 

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