Kirsty Gunn

Kirsty Gunn (born 1960, New Zealand) is a novelist and writer of short stories. Her stories include "Rain", which led to the film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs.
Her novel "The Boy and the Sea" won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award in 2007.
Her 2012 novel "The Big Music" won the Book of the Year in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards. The novel took seven years to write, and was inspired by pibroch, the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe.
She is professor of writing practice at the University of Dundee.