Īs a teenager she worked as a cleaner, working for David Cornwell-who wrote under the pen-name John le Carré-for four months. As a child Kay suffered racism from children and teachers at school. Her adoptive father worked for the Communist Party full-time and stood for Member of Parliament, and her adoptive mother was the Scottish secretary of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Jackie and Maxwell also have siblings who were brought up by their biological parents. They adopted Jackie in 1961, having already adopted her brother, Maxwell, about two years earlier. She was adopted as a baby by a white Scottish couple, Helen and John Kay, and grew up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was Chancellor of the University of Salford between 20. įrom 2016 to 2021, Jackie Kay was the Makar, the poet laureate of Scotland. Kay has won many awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award in 1994, the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011. Jacqueline Margaret Kay, CBE, FRSE, FRSL (born 9 November 1961), is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011).
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