Jamila Gavin
, b. 1941
Jamila Gavin is an Indian-born author based in Britain best-known for her critically-acclaimed books for young people. She studied at the Trinity College of Music in London before working for the BBC in Arts programming. Her first book, The Magic Orange Tree, was published in 1979. Other works include the Surya Trilogy (Mammoth, 1997) and Coram Boy (Mammoth, 2000), School for Princes – Stories from the Panchatanta (Frances Lincoln, 2011), and Tales from India – Stories of Creation and the Cosmos (Templar Publishing, 2011). She has published two volumes of autobiography, Out of India: an Anglo-Indian childhood (Pavilion, 1997) and Out of India: Walking on My Hands (Hodder Children's Books, 2007).
Bio prepared by Sonya Nevin, University of Roehampton, sonya.nevin@roehampton.ac.uk
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