Kirsty Gunn

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Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist and writer of short stories.

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Her stories include "Rain", which led to the 2001 film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs and also the 2001 ballet by the Rosas Company, set to "Music for Eighteen Musicians" a 1976 score by Steve Reich.

Her novel The Boy and the Sea won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award in 2007. [1]

Her 2012 novel "The Big Music" won the Book of the Year in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards. [2] [3] The novel took seven years to write, and was inspired by pibroch, the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. [4]

She is professor of writing practice at the University of Dundee, [1] and Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. [5]

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  1. 1 2 "Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year 2007 - Winner announced". Scottish Arts Council. 18 August 2007. Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  2. Dass, Kiran. "Kirsty Gunn". Unity Books. Retrieved 29 August 2013.
  3. Thorpe, Adam (27 July 2012). "The Big Music by Kirsty Gunn – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  4. Thought, The. "Kirsty Gunn on 'The Big Music'". The Thought Fox. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
  5. "Academic Writing Support".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)