Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay

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). 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 Year Award in 2011. From 2016 to 2021, Jackie Kay was the Makar, the poet laureate of Scotland. She was Chancellor of the University of Salford between 2015 and 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Jackie Kay is the 7,475th most popular writer, the 8,119th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 771st most popular British Writer.

Jackie Kay is a Scottish poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer, renowned for her exploration of themes such as identity, race, and belonging in her work. She is particularly celebrated for her poetry collections, including "Adventures in New Poetry" and her memoir "Red Dust Road."