Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay

Resumen

Liz Lochhead has become an essential reference in Scottish literature and an inspiration for a younger generation of women writers, like Jackie Kay, who have found in her texts the plural voices of Scottish working-class women that previously lacked representation. Lochhead's political alliances are distinguishably situated within feminism and nationalism, as demonstrated by her engagement with the activities of the pro-independence political and artistic organisation National Collective in the early 2010s. The contribution of Jackie Kay to literature has been widely acknowledged through the many literary awards she has received, including The Guardian Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for her novel Trumpet , but also through her successive appointments, as Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2006 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2020, for her services to literature.