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Professor Kirsty J Gunn - Professor of Creative Writing


Email: k.j.gunn@dundee.ac.uk
Telephone: (01382) 38-6680
Room Location: 3.16, Tower Extension

Kirsty Gunn, BA (Hons), M.Phil. was educated at Victoria University and Oxford and has published four novels, Rain (Faber, 1994), The Keepsake (Granta, 1997), Featherstone (Faber, 2001) and The Boy and the Sea (Faber, 2006) which was named Scottish Book of the Year 2007, as well as a collection of short stories, This Place You Return to is Home. Her book 44 Things was published in 2007 and is a meditation upon domestic life and creativity, and her latest novel, The Big Music, was published in July 2012, with a Dundee launch in May.  The Big Music tells the story of a world-famous Scottish piper who has come to the end of his life and is writing one final tune that tells the story of his family and history - one that is full of secrets and stories that up until now have always been kept private.

Kirsty's work has been widely anthologised and broadcast as well as filmed, and her awards include the Sundial Scottish Book of the Year 2007, the Scottish Arts Council Award and the London Arts Board Award for Writers.

She has previously taught Creative Writing at Oxford University and at a number of writing seminars and schools. She lives in London and Scotland with her husband and two young daughters.

Further information about Kirsty is available on her website at http://www.kirsty-gunn.com/.

Cover of The Big MusicBook cover of 44 Things, A Year of Writing Life at HomeBook cover of The Boy and the SeaBook cover of Featherstone

Selected Publications

The Big Music (London: Faber, 2012)

44 Things: A Year of Life at Home (London: Atlantic, 2007), xiii + 326 pp.

The Boy and the Sea (London: Faber, 2006), 140 pp.

Featherstone (London: Faber, 2002), 256 pp.

This Place You Return to is Home (London: Granta, 1999), 208 pp.

The Keepsake (London: Granta, 1997), 213 pp.

Rain (London: Faber, 1994), 95 pp.

Prizes & Awards

2007     Scottish Book of the Year (The Boy and the Sea)
2007     Sundial Scottish Arts Council Fiction Book of the Year (The Boy and the Sea)
2003     Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursay
2001     Scottish Arts Council Award
2001     Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary
1994     London Arts Board Literature Award (Rain)
(and various European awards for books in translation)

 

Book cover of The Keepsake
Book cover of Rain
Book cover of This Place You Return to is Home

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