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British children's author

Narinder Dhami (born 1958 in Wolverhampton) is a British children's author.

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Narinder Dhami was born and brought up in Wolverhampton, with two younger sisters.

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When Narinder Dhami graduated from college, her greatest interest was to teach, and for ten years she put off her writing and worked as a primary school teacher.

Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton.

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 Asian Indian and western cultures both major influences in her life, and was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and then Birmingham University, where she graduated in 1980.

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 she gave up teaching for a full-time writing job. For the last few years, she has been writing contemporary realistic fiction about children growin