# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jackie-kay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:37:12.612Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jackie-kay"
name: "Jackie Kay"
slug: "jackie-kay"
description: "Jacqueline Margaret Kay 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."
tagline: "Scottish poet and novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Installation_of_Chancellor_Professor_Jackie_Kay_MBE_-_University_of_Salford%2C_Peel_Hall_(17320850932)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-11-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.277832
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump