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Swapna Haddow.

Writer · United Kingdom

Swapna Haddow: British author of the Dave Pigeon chapter-book series (with Sheena Dempsey on art) — short, doodle-flecked, gleefully silly early chapter books for ages 5–8.

Swapna Haddow is a British author of Indian heritage best known for the Dave Pigeon chapter-book series (illustrated by Sheena Dempsey), a string of short, doodle-flecked, gag-paced books narrated by an unctuously self-important pigeon with delusions of culinary grandeur. The series has strong UK reluctant-reader pull for ages 5–8 and has won the FCBG Children's Book Award. Haddow has also written picture books (Bringing Back Kay-Kay, My Dad Is a Grizzly Bear), middle-grade novels and a range of school-library fiction. A reliable contemporary UK voice for funny early chapter books, with growing reach into picture books exploring British South Asian family experience.