Jacqueline Margaret Kay (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). [1][2] Kay has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1994, the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Yea...

It became the title poem for her 2011 collection, the poetic partner to Red Dust Road, her memoir of the previous year, which draws together the languages and landscapes of Scotland and Nigeria.

Jackie Kay, a Scottish poet with Nigerian roots, writes poetry that reflects her life experiences with race, identity, and family. Growing up as a Black, adopted child in a white Scottish family, she brings these perspectives into her work.

Jackie Kay (b. 1961) is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, whose subtle investigation into the complexities of identity have been informed by her own life. Born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father, she was adopted as …

Jackie Kay is one of Scotland most popular writers. She is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and drama but also a black lesbian woman which plays an important role in her writing. Jacqueline Margaret Kay was born on 9 November 1961 in Edinburgh to a …

2018年5月17日 · British writer Jackie Kay has won acclaim for work that questions assumptions about personal and cultural identity. Her poetry, fiction, and plays, which have won numerous awards, examine issues of race and ethnicity, family, …

Two years ago, the award-winning Glaswegian writer Jackie Kay was appointed Scotland’s Makar. “I love being Makar,” Jackie says, smiling broadly. “I can’t imagine a greater honour than being asked to be a country’s national poet.”

2013年4月9日 · Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. THE ADOPTION PAPERS (Bloodaxe, 1991) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. DARLING was a poetry book society choice. FIERE, her most recent collection of poems was shortlisted for the COSTA award.

2017年7月19日 · Jackie Kay (1961– ) is an internationally lauded and prize-winning Scottish writer of poetry, prose, and plays. Kay was born in Edinburgh and adopted at birth by ‘communist stalwart[s]’ Helen and John.

2024年3月20日 · Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in 1961. She is a poet, novelist, playwright and writer of short stories, and from 2016 to 2021 was the third modern Makar, the National Poet for Scotland. What’s your earliest memory?