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Jackie Kay

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Scottish poet and novelist

United KingdomWritersBorn 1961 · age 64
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Jacqueline Margaret Kay is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011).

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Awards 11

2020BBC 100 Women
2016Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2003Cholmondeley Award
2003honorary doctorate
2002Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1994Somerset Maugham Award
1992Saltire Awards
1991Eric Gregory Award
Member of the Order of the British Empire
Lambda Literary Award
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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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.

Country
United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
Dates
Born 1961 · age 64
Written about in
18 languages

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