
Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay MBE was born on November 9, 1961. She is an award winning Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist who was knighted Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2006 for her “service to literature.” In 2016, she was named the third Scots Makar, the national poet of Scotland. Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. Her biological parents met when her father was a student at Aberdeen University and […]
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