Narinder Dhami

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Narinder Dhami (born in Wolverhampton on November 15, 1958) is a British children’s author.

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[edit] Early life

Dhami's father was an Indian immigrant from the Punjab who arrived in the UK in 1954, and her mother is English.[1] She grew up in a multi-cultural environment, with Indian and western cultures both major influences in her life, and was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and Birmingham University, where she took a degree in English in 1980.

[edit] Career

Dhami started working as a teacher, and for the next nine years she taught in primary and secondary schools in Essex and in the London borough of Waltham Forest. During this time, she began writing stories for teenage magazines, and contributed many photo-stories to the now-defunct Jackie magazine, published by DC Thomson.

Eventually, Narinder gave up teaching for a full-time writing career. For the last few years, she has concentrated on contemporary realistic fiction about young girls of Asian origin growing up in modern Britain. Her Babes trilogy is extremely popular with girls between 9 and 14 years of age.

Narinder Dhami is one of the four authors of the Rainbow Magic series, written under the name of Daisy Meadows.

She now lives in Cambridge with her husband and her cats.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

All books published by Random House unless otherwise specified.

  • Angel Face (Collins)
  • Changing Places (OUP)
  • Annie’s Game
  • Animal Crackers
  • Bindi Babes
  • Bollywood Babes
  • Bhangra Babes
  • Sunita’s Secret
  • Dani’s Diary
  • Bend it like Beckham
  • Superstar Babes (2008) (Featuring one of her friends Hinnah Muteen)

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Narinder Dhami at randomhouse.com (accessed 25 March 2003)

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