Alasdair Gray
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 works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards.
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Background
- Born in
- Glasgow
- Educated at
- Glasgow School of ArtWhitehill Secondary School
- Awards
- 🏆 Saltire Awards🏆 Guardian Fiction Prize
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Trending topics shown first"I asked the headmaster of literature, "Why are there so many headmasters and so few poets? Is it easier for you to train your own kind than ours?" He said, "No. The emperor needs all the headmasters h…"
"A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seed-word is always so ordinary that hardly anyone p…"
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1934
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