{"id":16741,"date":"2011-10-06T00:39:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T00:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=16741"},"modified":"2011-10-06T01:09:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T01:09:33","slug":"stories-and-survival%e2%80%99-an-interview-with-jackie-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=16741","title":{"rendered":"Stories and survival\u2019: An Interview with Jackie Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stories and survival\u2019: An Interview with Jackie Kay<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wasafiri<\/a>
\nVolume 25, Issue 4<\/a>, 2010
\npages 19-22
\nDOI: 10.1080\/02690055.2010.510366<\/a><\/p>\n

Maggie Gee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jackie Kay<\/a> has had a glittering career as a writer of poetry, fiction and drama for both adults and children. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland<\/a> in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted by a white couple at birth and was brought up in Glasgow<\/a>. Her first collection of poetry, The Adoption Papers<\/em> (1991), explored the experience of adoption and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Subsequent poetry books include Other Lovers<\/em> (1993), Off Colour<\/em> (1998), Life Mask<\/em> (2005) and Darling<\/a><\/em> (2007). Her bold and original short stories are collected as Why Don’t You Stop Talking<\/em> (2002) and Wish I Was Here<\/em> (2006). Her work has been widely anthologised and she has written drama for stage, radio and television. Her first novel, Trumpet<\/em>, published in 1998, was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize. Jackie Kay lives in Manchester and is a Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. In 2006, she was awarded an MBE<\/a> for services to literature. Jackie Kay’s memoir, Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey<\/a><\/em>, which she discusses in the following interview, was published in May of this year.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stories and survival\u2019: An Interview with Jackie Kay Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010 pages 19-22 DOI: 10.1080\/02690055.2010.510366 Maggie Gee Jackie Kay has had a glittering career as a writer of poetry, fiction and drama for both adults and children. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,10,25],"tags":[1587,7730,2133],"class_list":["post-16741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-women","tag-jackie-kay","tag-maggie-gee","tag-wasafiri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}