Jackie Kay

**Jacqueline Margaret Kay** (an haife ta a ranar 9 ga Nuwamba 1961) mawaƙiya ce 'yar ƙasar Scotland, marubuciyar wasan kwaikwayo, kuma marubuciya, wacce aka san ta da ayyukanta *na Other Lovers* (1993), *Trumpet* (1998) da *Red Dust Road* (2011).   Kay ta lashe kyaututtuka da yawa, ciki har da kyautar Somerset Maugham Award a 1994, kyautar Guardian Fiction Prize a 1998 da kyautar Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award a 2011.  

Daga 2016 zuwa 2021, Jackie Kay ita ce Makar, wacce ta lashe kyautar mawaƙiya ta Scotland .   Ta kasance Chancellor na Jami'ar Salford tsakanin 2015 da 2022. 

## Rayuwar farko da ilimi
An haifi Jackie Kay a Edinburgh, Scotland, a shekarar 1961, ga mahaifiyar wani ɗan ƙasar Scotland kuma uba ɗan Najeriya . Wasu ma'aurata fararen fata 'yan Scotland, Helen da John Kay, sun ɗauke ta jaririya, kuma ta girma a Bishopbriggs, wani yanki na Glasgow . [1] Sun ɗauki Jackie a shekarar 1961, bayan sun riga sun ɗauki ɗan'uwanta, Maxwell, kimanin shekaru biyu da suka gabata. Jackie kuma tana da 'yan'uwa waɗanda iyayenta na asali suka rene ta. [2]

Mahaifinta mai riƙon ta ya yi aiki a Jam'iyyar Kwaminis na cikakken lokaci kuma ya tsaya takarar Ɗan Majalisa,  kuma mahaifiyarta mai riƙo ita ce sakataren Yaƙin Neman Makamai na Nukiliya na Scotland. Tun tana ƙarama, Kay ta sha fama da wariyar launin fata daga yara da malamai a makaranta.  John Kay ya mutu a shekarar 2019 yana da shekaru 94.  Helen Kay ta mutu a shekarar 2021  tana da shekaru 90.

Tun tana ƙarama take aiki a matsayin mai tsaftace gida, tana aiki da David Cornwell - wanda ya rubuta a ƙarƙashin sunan John le Carré - na tsawon watanni huɗu. Ta ba da shawarar aikin tsaftacewa ga masu neman aiki, tana mai cewa: "Abin farin ciki ne ... Kana sauraron komai. Za ka iya zama ɗan leƙen asiri, amma babu wanda ke tunanin kana ɗaukar komai." Cornwell da Kay sun sake haɗuwa a shekarar 2019; ya tuna da ita kuma yana bin ta. 

A watan Agusta na 2007, Kay ta fito a kashi na huɗu na shirin BBC Radio 4 mai suna *The House I Grow Up In*, inda ta yi magana game da yarintarta. 

## Sana'a
Da farko ta yi tunanin zama 'yar wasan kwaikwayo, sai ta yanke shawarar mayar da hankali kan rubutu bayan da Alasdair Gray, wani mai fasaha kuma marubuci ɗan ƙasar Scotland, ya karanta waƙarta kuma ya gaya mata cewa rubutu shine abin da ya kamata ta yi.  Ta yi karatun Turanci a Jami'ar Stirling kuma an buga littafinta na farko na waƙoƙi, wanda wani ɓangare na tarihin rayuwarta, *The Adoption Papers*, a shekarar 1991 kuma ta lashe kyautar Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award da kuma kyautar Littafin Scottish Arts Council a shekarar 1992.  Tarin waƙoƙi ne da aka yi ta hanyar murya da yawa waɗanda ke magana game da asali, launin fata, ƙasa, jinsi, da jima'i daga mahangar mata uku: ɗa da aka ɗauke ta a matsayin 'yar da aka ɗauke ta a matsayin 'yar da ba ta da bambancin launin fata, mahaifiyarta da ta ɗauke ta a matsayin 'yar da ta haifa, da kuma mahaifiyarta ta haihuwa. Sauran kyaututtukan da ta samu sun haɗa da kyautar Somerset Maugham Award ta 1994 ga *Sauran Masoya*, da kuma kyautar Guardian Fiction Prize ta *Trumpet*, wadda aka yi wahayi zuwa gare ta daga rayuwar mawaƙin jazz na Amurka Billy Tipton, wani mutum mai canza jinsi. 

## Zaɓaɓɓun ayyuka

* *Takardun Tallafi*, Littattafan Bloodaxe, 1991,  (waƙa)
* *Sauran Masoya*, Littattafan Bloodaxe, 1993,  (waƙa)
* *Off Colour*, Bloodaxe Books, 1998,  (waƙa)
* *Ƙaho* (almara - 1998); Random House Digital, Inc., 2011, 
* *Kwaɗo Mai Mafarkin cewa ita mawaƙiyar opera ce*, Littattafan Yara na Bloomsbury, 1998, 
* *Kamfanin Biyu*, Puffin Books, 1994, 
* *Bessie Smith* (tarihin rayuwa - 1997), Faber & Faber, 2021, 
* *Me Yasa Ba Za Ka Daina Magana Ba* (almara – 2002); Pan Macmillan, 2012, 
* *Strawgirl*, Macmillan's Children's, 2002, 
* *Abin Rufe Rai*, Littattafan Bloodaxe, 2005,  (waƙa)
* *Ina Fatan Ina Nan* (almara - 2006); Pan Macmillan, 2012, 
* *Masoyi: Sabbin Waƙoƙi da Zaɓaɓɓu*, Littattafan Bloodaxe, 2007,  (waƙa)
* *Fitilar Lamplighter*, Littattafan Bloodaxe, 2008,  (waƙoƙi/wasan rediyo)
* *Red, Cherry Red*, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2007, 
* *Maw Broon Monologues* (2009) (an saka sunayensu a cikin jerin sunayen don lambar yabo ta Ted Hughes don Sabon Aiki a cikin Waƙoƙi)
* (tunawa)
* *Fiere*, Pan Macmillan, 2011,  (waƙa)
* *Gaskiya, Gaskiya*, Pan Macmillan, 2012, 
* *Shagon Mai Tausayi*, Mariscat Press, 2015,  (waƙa)
* *Bantam*, Pan Macmillan, 2017,  (waƙa)
* "Rayuwar Rubutu", a cikin *Littafin Jagorar Marubuta Mata*, Aurora Metro Books, 2020, 
* *Ranar Mayu*, Picador, 2024,  (waƙa)

## Manazarta