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.[1] Her wirk haes been pit ower intae German, Roushin, Lithuanien, Slovak, Spainis, Hungarian, Ukrainian an Italian.[2]
Personal life
eeditPaisley wis born Janet Violet McNaught in Ilford, Inglan, on 12 Janiwar 1948.[3] Her mither wis Harriet McNaught (née Wilson) teuk her an her twa sisters til Avonbridge,[4] whaur thay bade wi thair grandfaither.[3] She wint tae Callendar Park College of Education, graduatin in 1969.[3]
She mairriet whan she wis 21 in Juin 1969.[5]
She wis the mither o seivin loons, includin actor David Paisley.[6] Ane dee'd in bairnheid.[3]
She deed on 9 November 2018 fae cancer o the buffs.[7][3]
Career
eeditShe 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.[8] 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.[9] She wis gien a Creative Scotlan Awaird tae write Not for Glory (2000),[10] 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.[11]
The short film Long Haul, written bi Paisley, won a BAFTA nomination in 2001.[12]
References
eedit- ↑ Words Without Borders
- ↑ Fantastic Fiction Author Page
- ↑ a b c d e Seelye, Katharine Q. (22 November 2018). "Janet Paisley, Scottish Writer Who Drew on Family Abuse, Dies at 70". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ↑ "Janet Paisley obituary". The Times (in Inglis). 10 December 2023.
- ↑ Riach, Alan (14 November 2018). "Obituary: Janet Paisley, poet, novelist and activist for the Scots language". The Herald (in Inglis). Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ↑ "Obituary: Janet Paisley, award-winning novelist, poet and playwright". The Scotsman (in Inglis). 22 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
- ↑ Janet Paisley (1948 - 2018)
- ↑ "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
|deadurl=ignored (help) - ↑ "Janet Paisley – Services to Scots 2018". Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. 19 Januar 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
- ↑ 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
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