Jackie Kay

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jackie Kay
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Nov 9, 1961(1961-11-09)
Age	63
Birthplace	Scotland
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Scorpio

Jackie Kay Biography

Jackie Kay is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on November 9, 1961 in Scotland, United Kingdom. Guardian First Book Award-winning poet who became the first black writer to have a play produced by the Gay Sweatshop Theatre Group.

Another famous Scottish poet is Robert Burns.

Jacqueline Margaret Kay, CBE, FRSE (born 9 November 1961) is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works The Other Lovers, Trumpet, and Red Dust Road. Kay has won a number of awards, including the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011.

Kay writes extensively for stage (in 1988 her play Twice Over was the first by a Black writer to be produced by Gay Sweatshop Theatre Group), screen and for children. Her drama The Lamplighter is an exploration of the Atlantic slave trade. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in March 2007 and published in poem form in 2008.

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

Jackie Kay Net Worth

Jackie Kay is one of the richest Poet from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jackie Kay 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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

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

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 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, a suburb of Glasgow. They adopted Jackie in 1961, having already adopted her brother, Maxwell, about two years earlier. Jackie and Maxwell also have siblings who were brought up by their biological parents.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Jackie Kay Dating?

According to our records, Jackie Kay married to Carol Ann Duffy. As of December 1, 2023, Jackie Kay’s is not dating anyone.

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As a teenager she worked as a cleaner, working for David Cornwell—who wrote under the pen-name John le Carré—for four months. She recommended cleaning work to aspiring writers, saying “It’s great … You’re listening to everything. You can be a spy, but nobody thinks you’re taking anything in”. Cornwell and Kay met again in 2019; he remembered her, and had been following her.

Facts & Trivia

Jackie Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Jackie Kay celebrates birthday on November 9 of every year.

In March 2016, it was announced that Kay would be taking up the position of Scots Makar (national poet of Scotland), succeeding Liz Lochhead, whose tenure ended in January 2016.

Is Jackie Kay married?

Personal life. Kay is a lesbian. In her twenties she gave birth to a son, Matthew (whose father is the writer Fred D’Aguiar), and later she had a 15-year relationship with poet Carol Ann Duffy.

What nationality is Jackie Kay?

Scottish

What happened to Jackie Kay as a child?

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father, and was adopted at birth by a white couple living in Glasgow. She had a happy childhood, in spite of racial bullying at school, and remains close to her adoptive parents. The birth of her own son spurred her to trace her natural mother.

How old is Jackie Kay?

60 years (November 9, 1961)

When did Jackie Kay come out?

Jackie Kay: This is what it was like growing up black gay in 1960s Scotland.