Janet Paisley
Janet Paisley (1948 – 2018) wis a writer, poet an playwricht frae Scotland writin in Scots an Inglis.[1] Her wirk haes been translated intae German, Roushie, Lithuanie, Slovak, Spaingie, Hungarian, Ukrainian an Italian.[2]
Career[eedit | eedit soorce]
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.[3] She held three Creative Writing Fellowships, received twa Scottish Airts Council Writer's Bursaries an a Playwright's Bursary, edited New Writing Scotland an co-ordinated the first Scottish PEN Weemen Writers Committee.
Her first play Refuge wan the Peggy Ramsay Awaird in 1996.[4] She wis awairdit a Creative Scotland Awaird tae write Not for Glory (2000),[5] a collection o interlinked short stories in Scots set in a smaw veelage in Central Scotland. Not for Glory wis ane o the ten Scottish finalists voted for bi the public in the 2003 World Book Day 'We are what we read' poll.[6]
The short film Long Haul, written bi Paisley, wan a BAFTA nomination in 2001.[7]
She wis the mither o actor David Paisley.[8]
She deed in November 2018.[9]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Words Without Borders
- ↑ Fantastic Fiction Author Page
- ↑ "Cross Party Group on The Scots Language". www.parliament.scot (in Inglis). Scottish Parliament. Archived frae the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ "Literary Awards - Contemporary Writers", Contemporary Writers, 1996, archived frae the original on 12 October 2009, retrieved 16 October 2009 Unknown parameter
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ignored (help) - ↑ Scottish Arts Council Press Release (2002), "Creative Scotland Awards", Creative Scotland, retrieved 16 October 2009[deid airtin]
- ↑ Black, Edward (2003), "Murder, drugs - and The Broons", Scotsman, retrieved 20 Mey 2009
- ↑ "New Talent Awards 2000", Bafta, 2000, archived frae the original on 26 Januar 2010, retrieved 16 October 2009
- ↑ "Obituary: Janet Paisley, award-winning novelist, poet and playwright". The Scotsman (in Inglis). 22 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ Janet Paisley (1948 - 2018)
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