Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Kirsty Gunn
© Mathieu Bourgois
WRITER
New Zealand / The United Kingdom
Kirsty Gunn was born in New Zealand in 1960. She studied at Victoria University in Wellington and at Oxford. After living in New York for several years, she now lives in London and Scotland, where she is currently teaching literature and creative writing at the University of Dundee. She also works as a critic for several newspapers and magazines, and has published literature and poetry anthologies. Her first book, Pluie, published in England in 1994, was hailed by the critics and received the London Arts Board Literature prize. It also inspired Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker to create an eponymous work (Rain, 2001), and film director Christine Jeffs to adapt it for the screen. Gunn’s short novel Le Garçon et la mer was chosen Book of the Year 2007 by the Scottish Arts Council.
