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the national short story prize
find out more about the new national short story prize funded by NESTA and supported by BBC Radio 4 and Prospect magazine

'My Daughter, the Fox' by Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh in 1961. Her first collection of poetry, The Adoption Papers (1991), was published in 1991.

Her first novel, Trumpet, published in 1998, was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize. Why Don't You Stop Talking, a collection of short stories, came out in 2002.

Jackie Kay has also published a novel for children, Strawgirl (2002) and, most recently, a new collection of poems entitled Life Mask (2005).

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