Jackie Kay

Poet

Birthday November 9, 1961

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Scotland

Age 62 years old

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About

Guardian First Book Award-winning poet who became the first black writer to have a play produced by the Gay Sweatshop Theatre Group.

Before Fame

She dreamed of becoming an artist and wrote The Adoption Papers, an autobiographical collection of poems.

Trivia

In 2011, she won the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award for Red Dust Road.

Family Life

Her father, worked for the Communist Party and her adoptive mother worked as the secretary for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Associated With

Another famous Scottish poet is Robert Burns.