| Author Profiles - Narinder Dhami |
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| I also wrote hundreds of my own stories about all kinds of subjects . . . in my late teens, I had a big clear out and chucked all my stories away. I really regret that now. | ||
I was born (obviously) and brought up in Wolverhampton, along with my two younger sisters. From an early age I kind of realised we were different because my dad was Indian and my mum is white. While this wouldn’t strike most people as very strange these days, that wasn’t the case back in the Sixties and Seventies when I was growing up. I can still remember the shocked looks on people’s faces when we all went out together. As a kid, I was always either reading or writing. My mum claims I could read fluently by the time I was three and I loved books. One of my best memories is of my dad taking me into a big bookshop and telling me I could have whatever I liked. I still have one of the books we bought that day, a collection of stories about children around the world. I also wrote
hundreds of my own stories about all kinds of subjects. My sister
still goes on about one I read to her, which was about an inn sign
where all the painted characters come to life at night. When I was
in my late teens, I had a big clear out and chucked all my stories
away. I really regret that now. |
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When I started secondary school I stopped writing stories except when my English teachers asked me to. I was too busy with O-levels, A-levels and homework. It was only when I’d been teaching for a few years that I started to get interested in writing again. I was in charge of buying books for the school I was working in, and so I used to read loads of stuff. I either felt really envious because a book was great and I wished I’d written it, or I thought I could do better. Eventually I decided to stop talking about writing a book and just get on with it. I had my first book accepted within the next couple of months, and now I’m a full-time writer. Is there anything else I’d rather be doing? No. Except for being the first female manager of the England football team. AuthorZone
Issue 4. Sept 2002.
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