ACHUKA Authorfile #40
Jamila Gavin
ACHUKA Authorfile #40
Jamila Gavin
| My
hair colour: |
Dark brown going grey | |
| My
eye colour: |
Dark brown | |
| My
shoe size: |
Standard 5 | |
| My
star sign: |
Leo | |
| My
favourite book when child: |
Hans Andersen's Stories illustrated by Charles Robinson | |
|
Books that inspired me to become a writer: |
Treasure Island perhaps? Although I was an avid reader, it wasn't books that inspired me to become a writer, it was events, people and places. However, my mother's passion for Dickens must have influenced me greatly. | |
| My
favourite fictional character: |
Pip in Great Expectations | |
| My
favourite author: |
Oh Gosh! There are so many. If I must choose, then Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stephenson. | |
| My
ideal reading position: |
My grandfather would have said, sitting upright with the light coming over your left shoulder. Position is less important to me than having the the peace and quiet when I'm reading. | |
| My
usual means of marking a place in a book: |
Bus tickets, book marks, anything - but not folding over the corner of the page. | |
| My
favourite time of year: |
April and September | |
| My
favourite time of day: |
Early morning | |
| My
best time for working: |
Early morning | |
| The
first piece of work I was paid for was: |
A BBC radio broadcast I wrote and presented about my return to India when I was seventeen, making sound recordings at every step of the way for their archives. | |
| My
favourite TV show: |
Have I Got News For You | |
| My
favourite song: |
The song cycle "Dichterliebe" by Robert Schumann | |
| The
creature comfort I would most unwillingly relinquish: |
My piano (it's MY creature comfort.) | |
| My
favourite sweet food: |
Coupe Danmark (ice-cream, topped with cream and a jug of boiling hot chocolate) | |
| My
favourite savory food: |
Mutton curry and pilau rice. | |
| My
typical bedtime is: |
11.30 p.m. | |
| My
favourite year of childhood: |
Nine | |
| The
tidiest place in my home is: |
The kitchen | |
| The
untidiest place in my home is: |
My study | |
| The
working tool I would least like to do without: |
My computer | |