Jasbinder Bilan
 | The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. (December 2022) |
Jasbinder Bilan | |
|---|---|
 Bilan in 2022 | |
| Alma mater | Bath Spa University (MA) |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | www |
Jasbinder Bilan is an Indian-born British author and teacher.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Bilan was born on a farm in the northern Punjab, her mother from Moranwali and her father from Raipur Daba,[2] and moved to Nottingham, England at 18 months old, where she grew up in Lenton and Radford.[3] Bilan graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) in Writing for Young People from Bath Spa University in 2014.[4]
Personal life
[edit]Bilan lives near Bath with her husband and their two sons.[5]
Awards
[edit]- Costa Book Award for Children's Book in 2019[6][7]
- The Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition in 2017[8]
- Finalist for Waterstones Children's Book Prize in Younger Fiction in 2020[9]
- Longlisted for Jhalak Prize in 2020[10][11]
- Her book Asha & the Spirit Bird was selected as "Children's book of the week" by The Times[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Indian wins UK award". The Telegraph India. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ^ Bilan, Jasbinder (20 December 2020). "Jasbinder Bilan: Heading 'home' to India freed my creativity". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ Turpin, Matt (27 October 2019). "Writers in Profile #1: Jasbinder Bilan". Nottingham City of Literature. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ "Jasbinder Bilan". Bath Spa University. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ Roy, Amit (7 January 2020). "Indian wins UK award". The Telegraph India. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ "Costa Book Awards 2019 winners revealed". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ^ "Asha and the Spirit Bird' by Jasbinder Bilan". The Times of India. 2020-01-07. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ^ "Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition Extended For 2021". Institution of Engineering and Technology. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ^ "Bath author Jasbinder Bilan shortlisted for Waterstones Children's Book Prize". Bath Echo. 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ^ "Jhalak Prize 2020 longlist revealed". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ^ "2020 Prize Winners". Jhalak Prize. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
- ^ Jones, Nicolette. "Children's book of the week: Asha & the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan review". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
  | This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Categories:
- Living people
- Alumni of Bath Spa University
- British Asian writers
- British children's writers
- British people of Punjabi descent
- British writers of Indian descent
- Costa Book Award winners
- Indian children's writers
- Indian emigrants to England
- People from Hoshiarpur
- People from Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district
- Schoolteachers from Nottinghamshire
- Writers from Nottingham
- Writers from Punjab, India
- British writer stubs