Jasbinder Bilan won UK award
jasbinder Bilan, a schoolteacher who writes in her spare time, has won the Costa Children’s Book Award for Asha & The Spirit Bird, a tale set in the Himalayan foothills where the author was born
Jasbinder and the winners of the other four categories novel, first novel, biography and poetry who all win £3,000 are now considered for the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year which will be announced on January 28.
There has been one other Indian winner before Kishwar Desai, who won the first novel category for "Witness the Night" in 2010.
jasbinder Bilan, a schoolteacher who writes in her spare time, has won the Costa Children’s Book Award for Asha & The Spirit Bird, a tale set in the Himalayan foothills where the author was born
Jasbinder and the winners of the other four categories novel, first novel, biography and poetry who all win £3,000 are now considered for the £30,000 Costa Book of the Year which will be announced on January 28.
There has been one other Indian winner before Kishwar Desai, who won the first novel category for "Witness the Night" in 2010.
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