Alasdair Gray
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Alasdair James Gray was a Scottish writer and artist. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His wor
Gray in 2010
Gray in Glasgow, 1985
Mural by Alasdair Gray in the Òran Mór arts venue in Glasgow
The title page for Book Four of Lanark
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
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Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of hi
Alasdair Gray
…inspired many younger Scottish writers, including Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Janice Galloway, Chris Kelso and Iain Banks. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is considered a landmark of Scottish fiction; in a 2016 public poll by the BBC, it was named the third-best Scottish novel of all time. He was…
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