Jackie Kay

Jacqueline Margaret Kay
Jackie Kay, 2013
Born	(1961-11-09) 9 November 1961 (age 63) Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater	Varsity o Stirlin
Thrift	Professor o creautive writin at Newcastle Varsity, Scots Makar
Kent for	Makar an novelist

Jacqueline Margaret Kay MBE FRSE (born 9 November 1961) is a Scots makar, playwricht an novelist, kent fur her wirks Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1996) an Red Dust Road (2011). Kay haes won mony awairds, sic as the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 an the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards in 2011.^[1][2]

She wis the third modren makar till 2021, appyntit in 2016.^[3][4] She wis appyntit as chancellor o the Varsity o Salford in 2015.^[5]

1. ↑ "Profile: Jackie Kay". The List (in Inglis). 15 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 14 Februar 2020.
2. ↑ "The House I Grew Up In, featuring Jackie Kay". The House I Grew Up In. 27 August 2007. BBC Radio 4.
3. ↑ "Nicola Sturgeon praises Jackie Kay's 'outstanding contribution' as Scots Makar". HeraldScotland (in Inglis). Retrieved 20 Mairch 2021.
4. ↑ "Our National Poet". Scottish Poetry Library. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
5. ↑ Dobson, Charlotte (9 Mey 2015). "University of Salford officially appoints renowned poet Professor Jackie Kay as their new chancellor". Manchester Evening News (in Inglis). Retrieved 14 Februar 2020.