Jackie Kay

The poet and writer Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted by a white couple and brought up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow.

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Initially harbouring ambitions to be an actress, she decided to concentrate on writing after Alasdair Gray read her poetry and told her that writing was what she should be doing. She studied English at Stirling University and her first book of poetry (The Adoption Papers) was published in 1991, winning the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award. Other awards include a Somerset Maugham (for Other Lovers) and the Guardian Fiction Prize (for Trumpet), and she writes extensively for children, stage and screen. She has a son, Matthew, and lives in Manchester with the poet Carol Ann Duffy.

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Poet: Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. Poets are often regarded as imaginative thinkers or writers. Bad poets are called poetasters....

Edinburgh: Edinburgh (pronounced ), D?n ?ideann () in Scottish Gaelic, is the second-largest city in Scotland and is the country's capital city....

1961: 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar)....

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