Jackie Kay
Poet

Jackie Kay Net Worth

Jackie Kay is a Scottish poet and playwright born on November 9, 1961. She is the recipient of the Guardian First Book Award and is the first black writer to have a play produced by the Gay Sweatshop Theatre Group. Her work has been widely praised for its exploration of identity, race, and gender.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day November 9, 1961
Birth Place Scotland
Age 62 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Scorpio

💰 Net worth: $395 million (2024)

About

Guardian First Book Award-winning poet who became the first black Writer to have a play produced by the Gay Sweatshop Theatre Group.

Before Fame

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

Trivia

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

Family Life

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

Associated With

Another famous Scottish poet is Robert Burns.

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