Nadiya Hussain
Nadiya Jamir Hussain (born Nadiya Jamir Begum in Luton on December 25, 1984 ) is a British baker , columnist , author and television presenter .
biography
Hussain's parents are from Bangladesh . She grew up with five siblings in Luton.
As an enthusiastic hobby baker, she applied for the baking competition in the TV show The Great British Bake Off in 2015 , from which she emerged as the winner. In 2016 she was a juror in the spin-off Junior Bake Off, broadcast on CBBC .
Since 2015 Hussain has been writing a recipe column in Times Magazine , the weekend supplement of The Times newspaper .
Hussain was part of the BBC series 100 Women in 2016 . Her two-part television documentary, The Chronicles of Nadiya , in which she tours Bangladesh and learns about local recipes, was broadcast on BBC One in August 2016 .
In the same year she published two cookbooks: Nadiya's Kitchen and the children's book Nadiya's Bake Me a Story , in which she combines simple recipes with children's stories. Her first novel, The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters , was published in 2017 . He tells of the life of adolescent girls from a Muslim family in rural England. In 2020 Hussain's autobiographical book Finding My Voice and her first picture book My Monster & Me , which deals with dealing with fear, were published.
In 2017, Hussain co-hosted the BBC competition show The Big Family Cooking Showdown alongside Zoë Ball . In the same year she hosted the eight-part show Nadiya's British Food Adventure , in 2018 the cooking series Nadiya's Family Favorites and in 2019 the series Time To Eat , all of which were first broadcast on BBC Two . The latter was taken over by Netflix and has been there since April 29, 2020 under the title Foodhacks with Nadiya Hussain .
The British royal family chose Nadiya Hussain to bake the cake for the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II .
Hussain lives in Leeds with her husband and three children .
Publications
Cookbooks
- Nadiya's Kitchen (Michael Joseph, June 2016) ISBN 978-0-7181-8451-3
- Nadiya's Bake Me a Story (Hodder Children's Books, September 2016) ISBN 978-1-4449-3327-7
- Nadiya's British Food Adventure (Verlag Michael Joseph, July 2017) ISBN 978-0-7181-8766-8
- Nadiya's Bake Me A Festive Story (Hodder Children's Books, October 2017) ISBN 978-1-4449-3961-3
- Nadiya's Family Favorites (Verlag Michael Joseph, June 2018) ISBN 978-0-2413-4899-4
- Time to Eat. Delicious, time-saving meals using simple store-cupboard ingredients (Verlag Michael Joseph, July 2019) ISBN 978-0-2413-9659-9
Novels
- The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters (Harlequin, January 2017) ISBN 978-0-0081-9225-9
Autobiography
- Finding My Voice (Headline Home, April 2020) ISBN 978-1-4722-5997-4
picture books
- My Monster & Me (illustrated by Ella Bailey , Hodder Children's Books, April 2020) ISBN 978-1-4449-4644-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.nadiyahussain.com/nadiya/
- ↑ http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/great-british-bake-off/news/a812249/junior-great-british-bake-off-returns-really-soon/
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/11/13/great-british-bake-off-winner-nadiya-the-times-magazine-column_n_8553460.html
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38219841
- ↑ http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/21/475007057/british-bake-off-winner-takes-on-the-toughest-judge-of-all-the-queen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hussain, Nadiya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hussain, Nadiya Jamir (full name); Begum, Nadiya Jamir (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British baker, columnist, author and television presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luton , England |