Lanark 1982, Janine Poor Things The Book of Prefaces
Spouse
Inge Sørensen
(m. 1961; sep. 1969)
Morag McAlpine
(m. 1991; died 2014)
Children
1
Website
Official website Alasdair Gray Archive
Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards.
He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1952 to 1957. As well as his book illustrations, he painted portraits and murals, including one at the Òran Mór venue and one at Hillhead subway station. His artwork has been widely exhibited and is in several important collections. Before Lanark, he had plays performed on radio and TV.
His writing style is postmodern and has been compared with those of Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. It often contains extensive footnotes explaining the works that influenced it. His books inspired many younger Scottish writers, including Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Janice Galloway, Chris Kelso and Iain Banks. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Glasgow from 1977 to 1979, and professor of Creative Writing at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities from 2001 to 2003.
Gray was a Scottish nationalist and a republican, and wrote supporting socialism and Scottish independence. He popularised the epigram "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" (paraphrased from a poem by Canadian poet Dennis Lee) which was engraved in the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh when it opened in 2004. He lived almost all his life in Glasgow, married twice, and had one son. On his death The Guardian referred to him as "the father figure of the renaissance in Scottish literature and art".
Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish...
AlasdairGray (1934–2019) wrote novels, short stories, poetry and drama. Lanark (1981) ISBN 978-1-84767-374-9 1982, Janine (1984) ISBN 978-1-84767-444-9...
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accompanist, and academic AlasdairGray (1934–2019), Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Hay (born 1961), British firefighter Alasdair Houston, English evolutionary...
station's foyer. The work is by AlasdairGray, and was developed over fourteen months with artist Nichol Wheatley using ceramics. Gray stated, "The station is...
Something Leather is a novel-in-stories by AlasdairGray which was published in 1990. Its framing narrative is the story of June's initiation into sado-masochistic...
Unthinkable, London: Harper Collins, 1994, p. 223-4. ^ Aideen McLaughlin 'AlasdairGray pleads for help to find his long-lost artworks; Scots artist plans visual...
"edited and glossed"[citation needed] by the Scottish artist and novelist AlasdairGray. It seeks to provide a history of how literature spread and developed...
Centre, Edinburgh, 1986 Alasdair Taylor, a Retrospective - Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, 2007 The Two Alasdairs: AlasdairGray & Alasdair Taylor - Mackintosh...
Love is a book by AlasdairGray, published by Bloomsbury in 2007. The book purports to be a found manuscript by John Tunnock, which Gray merely edits - from...
fantasy coming-of-age film, is based on the novel of the same name by AlasdairGray. Stone also produced the film, in which she starred as Bella, a young...
Grainger Alex Grant David Grant Joseph Grant AlasdairGray Alexander Gray Christian Gray David Gray James Gray Andrew Greig John Grieve Kris Haddow Jen Hadfield...
Martin J. Sherwin Poor Things – Tony McNamara; based on the novel by AlasdairGray The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer; based on the novel by Martin...
Samuel Beckett can create humour out of the most grim situations and AlasdairGray whose Lanark: A Life in Four Books (1981) is a dystopian fantasy set...
Ballard and Philip K. Dick. Self admires the work of J. G. Ballard, AlasdairGray and Martin Amis. He has said that he previously admired William Burroughs...
John Giorno William Golding Nadine Gordimer Hedwig Gorski Jorie Graham AlasdairGray Michael Grothaus Andrei Gusev Jessica Hagedorn John Hawkes Brenda Hillman...
in March 2001. He was one of five candidates and narrowly defeated AlasdairGray for the post. Hemphill appeared in the Scottish Gaelic-language drama...
University in North East England. His thesis, a study of the work of AlasdairGray, was completed in 1989. From 2003 to 2010, Charlton was the solo-editor...
Lochhead, Don Paterson, Ian Rankin, Andrea Gibb, David Greig, John Byrne, AlasdairGray and James Kelman. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards, organised...
graduate school, he attended Glasgow University, where he was tutored by AlasdairGray, James Kelman, Janice Galloway, and received a Master of Philosophy...
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