Jasbinder Bilan

Jasbinder Bilan was born in India, close to the Himalayas, before moving to Nottingham as a child. She graduated from Bath Spa University and has gone on to write several books for children, winning a plethora of awards for her work. Her debut novel, Asha and the Spirit Bird, was awarded the Times/Chicken House Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, longlisted for the Jhalak Prize and nominated for the Carnegie Medal.

Jasbinder works as a teacher and in her free time loves writing stories for children. She is also an active member of Authors4Oceans, an organisation campaigning to clean our oceans of plastic

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