{"id":29951,"date":"2013-03-31T02:43:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T02:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29951"},"modified":"2016-04-07T01:25:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T01:25:47","slug":"interview-jackie-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29951","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Jackie Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview: Jackie Kay<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Journal<\/a>
\nNewcastle upon Tyne
\n2013-03-30<\/p>\n

Jackie Kay<\/a> is about to be read in places most writers never reach. David Whetstone<\/a> spoke to her.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

YOU can imagine there are lots of things a writer dreams of \u2013 literary prizes, lucrative deals, maybe a film adaptation.<\/p>\n

But a different accolade has come the way of Jackie Kay<\/a>, professor of creative writing at Newcastle University.<\/p>\n

Her acclaimed memoir, Red Dust Road<\/a><\/em>, has been chosen as one of 20 books on the list for World Book Night (April 23).<\/p>\n

On that night 20,000 volunteers will each distribute 20 copies of the chosen books in communities where reading is not commonplace.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the books can be by writers living or dead so there were a lot to choose from,\u201d says Jackie…<\/p>\n

…Jackie was born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted as a baby by a Scottish couple and grew up in Glasgow.<\/p>\n

The book, sparked by Jackie\u2019s decision to track down her birth parents, begins as she waits in a hotel in Nigeria to meet the father she has never seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a strange thing, looking at one black man after another wondering if he is your father,\u201d she writes…<\/p>\n

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

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