Kirsty Gunn is a novelist and short-story writer who created and taught on the Creative Writing programmes at the University of Dundee. In this pamphlet, published in 2016, she considers the various thoughts and arguments about whether a ‘national literature’ exists. She concludes: “To write what we want to write – now. In these times. That’s where the formation of a National Literature begins.”
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Notes Towards a National Literature
Kirsty Gunn is a novelist and short-story writer who created and taught on the Creative Writing programmes at the University of Dundee. In this pamphlet, published in 2016, she considers the various thoughts and arguments about whether a ‘national literature’ exists. She concludes: “To write what we want to write
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