Hiba Noor Khan

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Hiba Noor Khan is an English children's author and physics teacher. Her middle grade historical fiction novel Safiyyah's War (2023) won a 2024 Jhalak Prize among other accolades.

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Early life and education

Of Pakistani descent, Khan grew up in Essex [1] and attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls (CCHS). [2] She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Manchester in 2014. [3] She completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PCGE) at Keble College, Oxford in 2015. [4] She later pursued a Master of Arts (MA) in Global Diplomacy at SOAS University of London. [5]

Career

Khan worked as a school physics teacher in Lancashire [3] and as an aid worker in Tanzania and Turkey. [6] She assisted in policy research for the 2015 Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. [7]

In 2019, Khan was commissioned to write an installment of Penguin Random House's Extraordinary Lives series about Malala Yousafzai. [8] Via Macmillan, Khan published her first picture book The Little War Cat in 2020, with illustrations provided by fellow CCHS alumnus Laura Chamberlain. Khan had been inspired by the true story of Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel, an Aleppo ambulance driver who rescued over 30 cats during the Syrian Civil War. [6] [9]

Khan then wrote the non-fiction picture book Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future (2022) for Walker Books' People Power series, illustrated by Salini Perera. [10] Macmillan also picked up Khan's physics book How to Spaghettify Your Dog (2023), illustrated by Harry Woodgate and another non-fiction work One Home: Eighteen Stories of Hope from Young Activists, illustrated by Rachael Dean. [11]

At the start of 2023, Andersen Press acquired the rights to publish Khan's debut middle grade novel Safiyyah's War later that year. [12] Told from the perspective of an 11-year-old Muslim girl, the novel is based on the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris during World War II protected Jews by forging identity documents and allowing them to seek shelter in the catacombs. [13] [14] Safiyyah's War won the 2024 Jhalak Prize [15] and an Indie Book Award for Children's Fiction. [16] It was also shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal [17] and the Branford Boase Award. [18]

Khan is set to reunite with Andersen Press for the release of her second novel The Line They Drew Through Us in 2025. [19]

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

Accolades

YearAwardCategoryTitleResultRef
2024 Jhalak Prize Children's and Young AdultSafiyyah's WarWon [15] [20]
Carnegie Medal Shortlisted [17]
Indie Book Awards (UK)Children's FictionWon [16]
Branford Boase Award Shortlisted [18]
The Week Junior Book AwardsChildren's Book of the Year – Older FictionWon [21]
Children's Book of the Year – STEMHow to Spaghettify Your DogShortlisted [22] [lower-alpha 1]
Kirkus Prize Middle GradeSafiyyah's WarPending [23]

Notes

  1. ↑ Shared with Harry Woodgate

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References

  1. ↑ Khan, Hiba Noor (11 January 2024). "How Reconnecting With My Culture Helped Me Reclaim My Faith". Amaliah. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  2. ↑ "More News from Former Students..." (PDF). Chelmsford County High School for Girls: Alumnae Newsletter. 2020. p. 17. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  3. 1 2 Javed, Saman (31 August 2023). "Hiba Noor Khan Q&A: 'I want to shed light on the forgotten heroes of the past'". Hyphen. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  4. ↑ "Matriculation: At Graduate Level" (PDF). The Record: 2014/15. p. 14. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
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  6. 1 2 "Writing for children: Hiba Noor Khan". The Asian Writer. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
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  11. ↑ "Trio of Khan titles go to MCB and Walker". Watson, Little (WL). 27 August 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
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