Kirsty gunn biography of michael

          Kirsty Gunn.

        1. Gunn is herself from New Zealand, from Wellington, and yet has lived for many years in the UK. While making this pilgrimage, to stay where Mansfield was from.
        2. Michael Schmidt spoke with Michael Wood, author and regular contributor to the London Review of Books, in a conversation chaired by novelist Kirsty Gunn.
        3. Author Kirsty Gunn offers poignant reflections on being a novelist in contemporary literary culture: on the need to be 'relevant' and to.
        4. History, biography, lyrical essay and reportage gives us back, in deeper colours, the life and work of one of those whose story we continue.

          5. Michael Schmidt spoke with Michael Wood, author and regular contributor to the London Review of Books, in a conversation chaired by novelist Kirsty Gunn.!

          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