Gavin, Jamila
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1941- ) Indian-born children's author in UK from the early 1950s, prolific in several genres since she began publishing in 1979. Of sf interest are Ali and the Robots (1986), a not particularly challenging tale involving Robots, and the more ambitious The Wormholers (1996), an Alternate Cosmos tale. [JC]
Jamila Gavin
born Mussoorie, India: 9 August 1941
works
- Ali and the Robots (London: Methuen Children's Books, 1986) [hb/Sally Williams]
- The Wormholers (London: Methuen, 1996) [hb/]
- From Out of the Shadows (London: Egmont, 2002) [coll: hb/Kim McGilbray]
- Blackberry Blue and Other Fairy Tales (London: Random House/Tamarind, 2013) [coll: hb/Richard Collingridge]
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