2016.10.23 诗人和作家杰基-凯

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Kirsty Young's castaway is the poet and writer Jackie Kay. Born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father, she was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow. Her father worked for the Communist Party and her mother was the Scottish secretary for CND. She began to write seriously at the age of 17 when recovering from a moped accident, and while reading English at the University of Stirling she became a feminist and politically active in the arena of gay and lesbian rights and racial equality.

Her first book of poetry, the partly autobiographical The Adoption Papers, was published in 1991 and won the Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award. She won the 1994 Somerset Maugham Award for Other Lovers, the Guardian Fiction Prize for Trumpet and in 2010 published Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her biological parents. She is now Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Chancellor of Salford University and was appointed Makar - Scotland's Poet Laureate - in March 2016.




诗人和作家杰基-凯。她1961年出生于爱丁堡，母亲是苏格兰人，父亲是尼日利亚人，婴儿时被一对苏格兰白人夫妇Helen和John Kay收养，在格拉斯哥的Bishopbriggs长大。她的父亲为共产党工作，她的母亲是CND的苏格兰秘书。她17岁时从一场摩托车事故中恢复过来，开始认真写作，在斯特林大学读英语时，她成为一名女权主义者，并在男女同性恋权利和种族平等的舞台上积极参与政治。

她的第一本诗集，部分为自传性质的《收养文件》，于1991年出版，并获得了萨尔泰尔协会苏格兰第一本书奖。她以《其他情人》获得1994年萨默塞特-毛姆奖，以《小号》获得卫报小说奖，并在2010年出版了《红尘路》，讲述了她寻找亲生父母的过程。她现在是纽卡斯尔大学的创意写作教授和索尔福德大学的校长，并于2016年3月被任命为马卡--苏格兰的桂冠诗人。