Kate Clanchy

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Kate Clanchy MBE
Born1965 (age 55–56)
Glasgow, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Occupationpoet, teacher, writer
Known forSlattern, Sammarkand, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
Parent(s)Michael Clanchy & Joan Clanchy (née Milne)
AwardsEric Gregory Award
Forward Poetry Prize
Scottish First Book of the Year
Orwell Prize for Political Writing

Kate Clanchy, MBE (born 1965 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish poet, freelance writer and teacher.

Early life[]

She was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy (née Milne).[1][2] She was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh and at the University of Oxford, where she studied English.[3]

Career[]

She lived in London's East End for several years, before moving to Oxfordshire where she now works as a teacher, journalist and freelance writer.

Her poetry and seven radio plays have been broadcast by BBC Radio. She is a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper; her work appeared in The Scotsman, the New Statesman and Poetry Review. She also writes for radio and broadcasts on the BBC's World Service, Radio 3 and Radio 4.[4] She is a Creative Writing Fellow of Oxford Brookes University and teaches Creative Writing at the Arvon Foundation. She is currently one of the writers-in-residence at the charity First Story. Her poetry has been included in A Book of Scottish Verse (2002) [5] and The Edinburgh book of twentieth-century Scottish poetry (2006).[6] Clanchy was appointed an MBE in 2018.[7]

Controversy about Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me[]

In August 2021, Clanchy announced that she would rewrite her book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me after passages from it were criticised online for their depictions of ethnic minority, autistic and working class children, including use of terms described by some as "dehumanising", "racist", "anti-Black", and "antisemitic".[8] Detractors included fellow writers Dara McAnulty, Monisha Rajesh, Sunny Singh and Chimene Suleyman. Clanchy was defended by Philip Pullman and Amanda Craig.

Clanchy had initially claimed, incorrectly, that the extracts concerned were "all made up", then argued that the quotes, which she herself described as "racist",[8][9] had been taken out of context.[7] Clanchy Later issued a statement apologising for "overreacting" to the critiques and stating that she "got many things wrong, and welcome[d] the chance to write better, more lovingly".[7][8]

Prizes and awards[]

  • 1994 Eric Gregory Award
  • 1997 Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) for Slattern[10]
  • 1996 London Arts Board New Writer Award
  • 1996 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award for Slattern
  • 1996 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Slattern
  • 1997 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (shortlist) for Slattern
  • 1997 Somerset Maugham Award for Slattern
  • 1999 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) (shortlist) for Samarkand
  • 1999 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for Samarkand
  • 2004 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) (shortlist) for Newborn
  • 2009 Scottish Arts Council Book Award for What Is She Doing Here?: A Refugee's Story[11]
  • 2009 Writers' Guild Award for Best Book (What is She Doing Here)
  • 2009 BBC National Short Story Award for The Not-Dead and The Saved
  • 2013 Costa Book Awards (First Novel), shortlisted for Meeting the English[12]
  • 2018 Cholmondeley Award
  • 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Writing for Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me[13]

Bibliography[]

  • Slattern. Picador. 2001. ISBN 978-0-330-48929-4. 1st edition Chatto & Windus, 1995
  • Samarkand. Picador. 1999. ISBN 978-0-330-37194-0.
  • All The Poems You Need To Say Hello. Picador. 2004. ISBN 978-0-330-43384-6. (editor)
  • Newborn. Macmillan UK. 2006. ISBN 978-0-330-41931-4. 1st edition Picador, 2004
  • Our Cat Henry Comes to the Swings. illustrated Jemima Bird. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-272557-8.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • What Is She Doing Here?: A Refugee's Story. Picador. 2008. ISBN 978-0-330-44382-1.
  • Meeting the English. Picador. 2013. ISBN 978-0-330-53527-4.
  • Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me. Picador. 2019. ISBN 978-1-5098-4029-8.

References[]

  1. ^ "StackPath". www.nlcs.org.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. ^ UCL (5 February 2021). "Professor Michael Clanchy FBA (1936–2021)". History. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. ^ Wilby, Peter (5 November 2019). "Teacher who helps migrant children turn pain into prize poetry". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  4. ^ "StAnza Festival 2017". Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  5. ^ Maurice Lindsay, ed. (2002). A Book of Scottish Verse. Robert Hale. ISBN 978-0-7090-6901-0.
  6. ^ Maurice Lindsay; Lesley Duncan, eds. (2006). "Mitigation". The Edinburgh book of twentieth-century Scottish poetry. Edinburgh University Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-7486-2015-9. Kate Clanchy.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b c Campbell, Lucy (10 August 2021). "Kate Clanchy to rewrite memoir amid criticism of 'racist and ableist tropes'". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b c Rajesh, Monisha (13 August 2021). "Pointing out racism in books is not an 'attack' – it's a call for industry reform". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  9. ^ Clanchy, Kate [@KateClanchy1] (30 July 2021). "Sorry to whinge but - on @goodreads , someone made up a racist quote and said it was in my book. Other reviewers picked it up and repeated it. I've flagged the reviews many times but it does no good. Today I got my first email threat based on it. Is there anything I can do?" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 August 2021 – via Twitter. |date= mismatches calculated date from |number= by two or more days (help)
  10. ^ "Forward Arts Foundation Alumni".
  11. ^ "Scottish Arts Council - Literature - Book Awards 2009 - Non-fiction". Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  12. ^ Mark Brown (26 November 2013). "Costa book awards 2013: late author on all-female fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
  13. ^ "Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me | the Orwell Foundation".

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