Redigerer Jamila Gavin (avsnitt)

== Liv ==
{{Sitat|Gradually she came to realise that her own childhood with its twin strands in India and England gave her the opportunity of writing from first hand experience for many contemporary children. «I did know that my Anglo-Indian background was interesting to other people but I didn’t know how to write about it. I didn’t want to write an autobiography and I didn’t have a specific story to tell.»|[[Julia Eccleshare]]. «Interview with Jamila Gavin», 2003<ref>[http://www.papertigers.org/interviews/archived_interviews/jgavin.html papertigers.org] {{Wayback|url=http://www.papertigers.org/interviews/archived_interviews/jgavin.html |date=20131229004053 }}</ref>.|right}}
Hun har indisk far og britisk mor, og har bodd permanent i [[England]] siden 1953. Hun flyttet første gang til England i 1946 sammen med moren og broren, på grunn av politisk uro i India. Før hun ble forfatter arbeidet hun med kunst og musikk i [[BBC]].<ref name="JE2002">Julia Eccleshare. ''Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, portraits of children’s writers''. National Portrait gallery, 2002. ISBN 1-85514-342-9</ref>  

Selvbiografien ''Out of India, an Anglo-Indian childhood'' (1997) kom i utvidet utgave i 2007: ''Out of India, Walking On My Hands''. Samtaleboka ''An Interview With Jamila Gavin'' utkom i 2002.