Janet Violet Paisley (12 January 1948 – 9 November 2018[1]) was a writer, poet and playwright from Scotland, writing in Scots and English.
[2] Her work has been translated into German, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Spanish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Italian[3] and Polish.
[5] She held three Creative Writing Fellowships, received two Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursaries and a Playwright's Bursary, edited New Writing Scotland and co-ordinated the first Scottish PEN Women Writers Committee.
Not for Glory was one of the ten Scottish finalists voted for by the public in the 2003 World Book Day 'We are what we read' poll.
[8] The short film Long Haul, written by Paisley, received a BAFTA nomination in 2001.