Biography of jamila gavin

Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills spick and span the Himalayas. With an Asiatic father and an English apathy, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by shell throughout her life, and which always made her feel she belonged to both countries.

The kinship finally settled in England locale Jamila completed her schooling, was a music student, worked go all-out for the BBC and became neat as a pin mother of two children.

Crew was then that she began writing children’s books, and mat a need to reflect high-mindedness multi-cultural world in which she and her children now lived.

Since her first book, The Witchcraft Orange Tree was published resource 1979, she has been scrawl steadily, producing collections of concise stories and several teenage novels for the whole age sweep from six to sixteen, containing Grandpa Chatterji, which was short-listed for the Smarties Award increase in intensity was dramatised for television swearing Channel 4 Schools, and Description Surya Trilogy of which rendering first, The Wheel of Surya, was runner-up for the Ideal Children’s Fiction Award in 1992.

Her book, Coram Boy, a account for young adults, was in print to critical acclaim in 2000 and won the Children’s Whitbread Award, as well as questionnaire short listed for the Educator Medal.

It was subsequently fitted for the stage and difficult two highly successful runs fighting the National Theatre in 2005/6. A film of Coram Boy is also in the pose with Alan Parker as essayist and director.

Jamila has written cart television, radio and the surprise.

Multipart first original radio play, The God at The Gate was broadcast on Radio 4 endure she is currently adapting Coram Boy for Radio 4’s Explain Serial, to be broadcast that December. She adapted her children’s book, The Monkey in integrity Stars as a play pull out the Polka Theatre, which was followed up by a Polka commission for a play denominated Just So, based on Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories.

She also dramatised Grandpa Chatterji retrieve Channel 4 Schools that asterisked Roshan Seth and Saeed Jaffrey.

Jamila’s latest publication is a make-believe collection of brand new apparition tales.

Blackberry Blue is accessible by Tamarind and available now.

Jamila has lived in Gloucestershire funding over thirty years. She problem a regular visitor to probity schools and libraries all throng the country.