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Biography
Kirsty Gunn, BA (Hons), M.Phil., educated at Victoria University and Oxford, is the author of six novels - Rain, The Keepsake, Featherstone, The Boy and the Sea, The Big Music and Caroline's Bikini - extended essays and short stories about identity and Katherine Mansfield - Thorndon, My Katherine Mansfield Project and Going Bush - as well as two collections of short stories - This Place you Return to is Home and Infidelitites - and 44 Things, a collection of essays, fragments and stories. She is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes including the Scottish Arts Council Bursary for Literature, the New York Times Notable Book award, Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. The Big Music was shortlisted for the James Tait Black and Impac Awards and was a Guardian Book of the Year and winner of the New Zealand Book of the Year and her most recent novel, Caroline's Bikini, is just out in paperback this year.
Her last collection of short stories, "Infidelities", published in November 2014, was awarded the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2015 and was also shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. She is published by Faber and Faber and internationally, and her work has been made into films, theatre, dance and widely broadcast.
She has previously taught Creative Writing at Oxford University and at a number of writing seminars and schools and now teaches modules in Writing Practice and Study, and directs, with Gail Low, the WritersRead series at Tonic in Dundee. She lives in London and Scotland with her husband and two daughters.
Further information about Kirsty is available on her website at http://www.kirsty-gunn.com/.
Teaching
Undergraduate and Graduate modules in Writing Practice and Study; PhD supervision
Research
Fiction - Short and long; Essays
Research interests
Relevance of fiction and the imagination in the 21st century
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Projects
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Imagined Spaces: Practice based knowledge and research
Gunn, K., Low, G. & Mackenna, T.
31/03/19 → 20/12/20
Project: Research
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Stories that simply unfold: Katherine Mansfield’s place in the literary canon
Gunn, K., 6 Jan 2023, In: TLS -Times Literary Supplement. 6249Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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A Cartography of Piobaireachd
Gunn, K., 2022, Oxford : Archipelago Magazine.Research output: Other contribution
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Chimera. Artists book.
Low, G. (ed.), Gunn, K. (ed.) & Gault, P. (ed.), 20 Dec 2022, University of Dundee. 34 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Open Access -
Sickness and Short Stories
Gunn, K., 2022, In: Short Fiction in Theory and Practice.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Speaking, Singing, Living: An Introduction
Gunn, K., 7 Apr 2022, Such a Sweet Singing: Poetry to Empower Every Woman. London: Batsford, 112 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
Activities
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Katherine Mansfield and Mavis Gallant
Kirsty Gunn (Interviewee), Laurence Scott (Interviewee), Claire Harman (Presenter) & Shahidha Bari (Presenter)
6 Jan 2023Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - media article or participation
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My Scotland is...
Andy Robertson (Host), Gail Low (Organiser), Kirsty Gunn (Organiser), Ellie Julings (Organiser) & Paul Gault (Organiser)
15 Feb 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Taking Ideas for a Walk
Gail Low (Organiser) & Kirsty Gunn (Organiser)
19 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Other event
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NAWE Annual Conference 2018
Gail Low (Presenter) & Kirsty Gunn (Presenter)
11 Nov 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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The Voyage Out Press (Publisher)
Gail Low (Editor) & Kirsty Gunn (Editor)
2016 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity
Press / Media
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Finding Harmony, Literally, in Fiction About Music
25/01/19
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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Book celebrating "silent teachers" leads to Stephen Fry Award 2013
11/01/13
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other