Iain Crichton Smith
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Iain Smith, commonly known under his adopted name Iain Crichton Smith, was a Scottish poet and novelist who wrote in both English and Scottish Gaelic.
Iain Crighton Smith
Bust of Crichton Smith at Edinburgh Park
Bayble
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Bayble is a village in Point, on the Isle of Lewis, 6 miles east of Stornoway. Bayble is also within the parish of Stornoway.
Iain Crichton Smith
…tuberculosis and in 1930 the family moved back to Lewis, where he and his two brothers were brought up by their mother in the small crofting town of Bayble (which also produced the poets Derick Thomson and Anne Frater). Educated at the University of Aberdeen, Crichton Smith took a degree in English, and…
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