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Jamila Gavin

FRSL
Born (1941-08-09) August 9, 1941 (age 82)
Mussoorie, India
OccupationAuthor
NationalityBritish
Notable worksCoram Boy (2000)
Notable awardsWhitbread Children's Book Award (2000)

Jamila Gavin FRSL (born 9 August 1941) is a British writer who is known mainly for children's books, including several with Indian contexts.

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Jamila Gavin

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Jamila Gavin FRSL (born 9 August 1941) is a British writer who is known mainly for children's books, including several with Indian contexts. Gavin was...

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Coram Boy

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Coram Boy is a 2000 children's novel by Jamila Gavin. It won Gavin a Whitbread Children's Book Award. The book was adapted for the stage by Helen Edmundson...

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Gavin

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rules footballer James Gavin (disambiguation), multiple people Jamila Gavin British Indian born author of The Surya Trilogy Jason Gavin (disambiguation), multiple...

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Stroud

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Novelists Sue Limb, Jilly Cooper and Katie Fforde, children's authors Jamila Gavin, John Dougherty Cindy Jefferies and Clive Dale, poet Jenny Joseph, and...

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Egmont Group

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authors as Andy Stanton, Jim Smith, Michael Morpurgo, Lemony Snicket, Jamila Gavin and David Levithan. Electric Monkey is Egmont's dedicated Young Adult...

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Costa Book Awards

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Greatness — 2000 Matthew Kneale English Passengers Zadie Smith White Teeth Jamila Gavin Coram Boy John Burnside The Asylum Dance Lorna Sage Bad Blood – A Memoir...

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Notting Hill and Ealing High School

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actress Abi Fry (b. 1981), violist with the band British Sea Power Jamila Gavin (b. 1941), author Rose Graham (1875–1963), historian Virginia Graham...

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Cristin Milioti

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as Alice Ashbrook in Helen Edmundson's award-winning adaptation of Jamila Gavin's novel Coram Boy. In 2010, she starred in That Face, and was nominated...

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Mussoorie

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from Mussoorie at Night Ruskin Bond Tom Alter Anita Desai Saira Banu Jamila Gavin Stephen Alter Nayantara Sahgal Martha Chen Victor Banerjee Saeed Jaffrey...

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List of English novelists

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(born 1934) children's novels Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) Cranford Jamila Gavin (born 1941) children's novels Mike Gayle (born 1970) My Legendary Girlfriend...

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The Magic Orange Tree and Other Stories

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nine short stories by Jamila Gavin. Each story of this collection is a product of the child's imagination, according to Gavin in the introduction. The...

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Royal Society of Literature

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Gardner 1986 Rosie Garland 2023 Alan Garner 2011 Timothy Garton Ash 2005 Jamila Gavin 2015 *Kate Gavron 2020 Maggie Gee, Vice-President 1994 Adèle Geras 2013...

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Daryl Roth

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John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb Coram Boy (2007), from the novel by Jamila Gavin, book adapted by Helen Edmundson Inherit the Wind (2007), by Jerome Lawrence...

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List of historical novelists

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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865, England) Judith Gautier (1845–1917, France) Jamila Gavin (born 1941, India/England) Roberta Gellis (1927–2016, US) Margaret George...

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Little Vixen – Leoš Janáček (Glyndebourne Festival, 2012) Coram Boy – by Jamila Gavin, adapted by Helen Edmundson (Bristol Old Vic, 2011) Beasts and Beauties...

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Foundling Hospital

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The Foundling Museum Guide Book. The Foundling Museum, London, 2004. Gavin, Jamila. Coram Boy. London: Egmont/Mammoth, 2000: ISBN 1-4052-1282-9 (U.S. Edition:...

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Thomas Coram

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community, including a Youth Centre and free Sports Programme. In 2000, Jamila Gavin published a children's book called Coram Boy about the Foundling Hospital...

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2000 in literature

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Fox – Harriet, You'll Drive Me Wild! Cornelia Funke – The Thief Lord Jamila Gavin – Coram Boy Anthony Horowitz – Stormbreaker Hwang Sun-mi – The Hen Who...

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Shakespeare Schools Festival

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Shakespeare's 444th birthday. One of the best productions from SYF, Jamila Gavin's abridgement of Measure for Measure was performed by the National Youth...

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1992 in literature

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Elephant Chase Garry Disher – The Bamboo Flute Anne Fine – Flour Babies Jamila Gavin – The Wheel of Surya (first in the Surya trilogy) Rumer Godden Great...

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Tamarind Books

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Tamarind, alongside Wilkins, being Michael Rosen, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jamila Gavin and Meera Syal. The titles that were historically published under the...

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Ibtisam Barakat

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Other contributors include David Almond, Margaret Mahy, Meja Mwangi, Jamila Gavin, Eoin Colfer, Michael Morpurgo, Theresa Breslin, and Sarah Mussi.[citation...

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