Janet Paisley

Janet Violet Paisley née McNaught (12 Januar 1948 – 9 November 2018) wis a writer, poet an playwricht frae Scotland writin in Scots an Inglis. Her wirk haes been pit ower intae German, Roushin, Lithuanien, Slovak, Spainis, Hungarian, Ukrainian an Italian.

Personal life

Paisley wis born Janet Violet McNaught in Ilford, Inglan, on 12 Janiwar 1948. Her mither wis Harriet McNaught (née Wilson) teuk her an her twa sisters til Avonbridge, whaur thay bade wi thair grandfaither. She wint tae Callendar Park College of Education, graduatin in 1969.

She mairriet whan she wis 21 in Juin 1969.

She wis the mither o seivin loons, includin actor David Paisley. Ane dee'd in bairnheid.

She deed on 9 November 2018 fae cancer o the buffs.

Career

She wis a member o the Wirkin Pairty for a Scottish National Theatre, the SAC Scots Language Synergy, an the Cross Pairty Parliamentary Group for the Scots Language. She held three Creative Writing Fellowships, received twa Scottish Airts Council Writer's Bursaries an a Playwright's Bursary, editit New Writing Scotland an co-ordinated the furst Scottish PEN Weemen Writers Committee.

Her first play Refuge won the Peggy Ramsay Awaird in 1996. She wis gien a Creative Scotlan Awaird tae write Not for Glory (2000), a quair o airtit short stories in Scots set in a smaw clachan in Central Scotland. Not for Glory wis ane o the ten Scottish finalists votit fur bi the public in the 2003 World Book Day 'We are what we read' poll.

The short film Long Haul, written bi Paisley, won a BAFTA nomination in 2001.