Jamie, Kathleen, 1962-
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Name (Latin)
Jamie, Kathleen, 1962-
Date of birth
1962-05-13
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Creative nonfiction
Poetry
Occupation
College teachers
Poets
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Scottish Poetry Library WWW site, 27 November 2019:poets (Kathleen Jamie; born on 13 May 1962 in Renfrewshire, 1962; her family moved to Currie, just outside Edinburgh; wrote a poetic travelogue, The Golden Peak (this was updated and reissued as Among Muslims in 2002); then came The Autonomous Region, in collaboration with photographer Sean Mayne Smith, documenting her time in China)
- Surfacing, 2019:CIP t.p. (Kathleen Jamie) galley ("one of the UK's foremost poets, is the author of four books of poetry and three nonfiction titles, including Sightlines. Her many awards and honors include the 2017 Royal Geographic Society Ness Award, conferred upon Jamie “for outstanding creative writing at the confluence of travel, nature and culture”; the 2013 Costa Book Award; as well as numerous prestigious poetry awards, including the Somerset Maugham Award, Forward Poetry Prize of the Year, and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award (twice). A professor of creative writing at the University of Stirling, she lives with her family in Fife, Scotland")
- Her Black spiders, 1982:t.p. (Kathleen Jamie) p. 4 of cover (b. 1962; poet, studying phil., Edinburgh Univ.)