Gunn, Kirsty

LC control no.	n 94112006
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3557.U4864 PR9639.3.G86 WaU
Personal name heading	Gunn, Kirsty *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	London (England) Scotland
Birth date	1960
Place of birth	New Zealand
Field of activity	Fiction Creative writing (Higher education)
Affiliation	University of Dundee. Creative Writing Programme
Profession or occupation	Writers University and college faculty members Creative writing teachers Authors College teachers
Found in	Rain, 1995: CIP t.p. (Kirsty Gunn) The boy and the sea, 2006 t.p. (Kirsty Gunn) facing t.p. (b. 1960) Wikipedia, April 29, 2019 (Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist and writer of short stories; her novel "The Boy and the Sea" won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award in 2007. Her 2012 novel "The Big Music" won the Book of the Year in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards; she is professor of writing practice at the University of Dundee) Kirsty Gunn website, April 29, 2019: home page (Kirsty Gunn) about (lives in Scotland and London; born in New Zealand and has links to the literary community there via my work and writing about Katherine Mansfield; My novel set in the Highlands of Scotland,"The Big Music" won the 2013 New Zealand Book of the Year Award--to my mind a complete acknowledgement of both my New Zealand and Scottish heritage in that award's understanding of Maori whanau--as embodied by seven generations of a Highland family) British Council literature website, April 29, 2019 (Kirsty Gunn; Fiction Short Stories; Born: New Zealand; Kirsty Gunn was born in 1960 in New Zealand and educated at Queen Margaret College and Victoria University, Wellington, and at Oxford, where she completed an M.Phil. After moving to London she worked as a freelance journalist; lives in London and Scotland and is Professor of Writing Practice and Study at the University of Dundee, where she directs the writing programme)
Associated language	eng