Kirsty gunn biography of nancy
The conceit of the title is that she explains how she has got to where she is – and why that path hasn't led to untold riches.!
Apparently she was once famous on panel shows and the like, but – of more interest to me – she wrote detective novels in the s and '50s.
Kirsty Gunn
New Zealand-born British writer
Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist, essayist, short story writer, and professor of creative writing. She has won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award, the New Zealand Post Book Awards Book of the Year award, and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize.
Education and academic career
Gunn studied at Victoria University and Oxford University.[1]
She has taught creative writing at Oxford University.[1] She is currently a Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee[1][2] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature,[3] the Royal Literary Fund,[4] and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[5]
Writing career
Gunn's debut, the short novel "Rain", was published in 1994.[6][7] In 2001, the novel was adapted as both a film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs,[8] and as a ballet by the Rosas Compan
