Jackie Kay

Scottish poet and novelist · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1961 · age 65

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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2020BBC 100 WomenAward2016Fellow of the Royal Society of EdinburghAward2003Cholmondeley AwardAwardHonorary DoctorateAward2002Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1994Somerset Maugham AwardAward1992Saltire AwardsAward1991Eric Gregory AwardAward1961Born9 November 1961

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BBC 100 Women2020

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh2016

Cholmondeley Award2003

Honorary Doctorate2003

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature2002

Somerset Maugham Award1994

Saltire Awards1992

Eric Gregory Award1991

Member of the Order of the British Empire

Lambda Literary Award

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

About this person

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.

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United Kingdom

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