Alasdair Gray
Novelist, Author
1934 –
Who is Alasdair Gray?
Alasdair Gray is a Scottish writer and artist. His most acclaimed work is his first novel, Lanark, published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years. It is now regarded as a classic, and was described by The Guardian as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction." His novel Poor Things won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He describes himself as a civic nationalist and a republican.
Gray's works combine elements of realism, fantasy, and science fiction, plus clever use of typography and his own illustrations. He has also written on politics, in support of socialism and Scottish independence, and on the history of English literature. He has been described by author Will Self as "a creative polymath with an integrated politico-philosophic vision", and as "a great writer, perhaps the greatest living in this archipelago today" and by himself as "a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian".
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- Born
- Dec 28, 1934
Glasgow - Also known as
- Грей, Аласдер
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Profession
- Education
- Glasgow School of Art
- Whitehill Secondary School
- Lived in
- Glasgow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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