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Alasdair Gray (born December 28, 1934) 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, which is now regarded as a cult classic. His novel Poor Things (1992) won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.[1] December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ...
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Motto: , traditionally rendered in Scots as Wha daur meddle wi me?[1] and in English as No one provokes me with impunity. ...
List of Scottish writers is an alphabetical list of Scottish writers. ...
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The frontispiece of book four of the novel, after that of Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Lanark (subtitled A Life in Four Books; ISBN 1841951838) was the first novel of Alasdair Gray, and is still his best known. ...
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",[2] and by himself as "a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian".[3] Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and a rejection of the impractical and visionary. ...
haha For other meanings see Fantasy (disambiguation) Fantasy is a genre of art that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
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Illustration by Jesse Wilcox Smith. ...
Politics is the process by which groups make decisions. ...
Socialism is a class of ideologies favouring a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ...
Walter Thomas Monningtons 1925 painting called Parliamentary Union of England and Scotland 1707 hangs in the Palace of Westminster depicting the official presentation of the law that formed the United Kingdom of Great Britain. ...
Will Self Will Self (born September 26, 1961) is an English novelist, reviewer and columnist who was educated first at University College School but later at Exeter College, Oxford. ...
Leonardo da Vinci is seen as an epitome of the Renaissance man or polymath. ...
Life
Book cover designed and Illustrated by Alasdair Gray. Gray was born in Riddrie, east Glasgow. His father had been wounded in the First World War and worked at the time in a factory, while his mother worked in a shop. During the Second World War, Gray was evacuated to Perthshire and then Lanarkshire, experiences which he drew on in his later fiction. The family lived on a council estate, and Gray received his education from a combination of state education, public libraries and public service broadcasting: "the kind of education British governments now consider useless, especially for British working class children", as he later commented. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1952 to 1957, and taught there from 1958 to 1962. It was as a student that he first began what would become the novel Lanark. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (490x730, 87 KB) Low resolution scan of front cover of Unlikely Stories, Mostly, by Alasdair Gray, Canongate Publishing Limited, 19 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh 1983 ISBN 0862410290 which is in my possession: Cover design and typography by Alasdair Gray Image to illustrate...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (490x730, 87 KB) Low resolution scan of front cover of Unlikely Stories, Mostly, by Alasdair Gray, Canongate Publishing Limited, 19 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh 1983 ISBN 0862410290 which is in my possession: Cover design and typography by Alasdair Gray Image to illustrate...
Riddrie is a north-eastern suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. ...
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Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
Perthshire (Siorrachd Pheairt in Gaelic) was a county in central Scotland, which extended from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south. ...
Lanarkshire (Siorrachd Lannraig in Gaelic) is a traditional county of Scotland. ...
Public housing describes a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ...
Educational oversight Minister for Education and Young People Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Scottish Executive Peter Peacock Nicol Stephen National education budget £4. ...
Librarians and patrons in a typical larger urban public library. ...
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North elevation of GSAs Mackintosh building Glasgow School of Art is one of four independent art schools in Scotland, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow. ...
After his graduation, Gray worked as a scene and portrait painter, as well as an independent artist and writer. His first plays were broadcast on radio and television in 1968. Between 1972 and 1974 he participated in a writing group organised by Philip Hobsbaum, where he met James Kelman, Liz Lochhead and Tom Leonard. Philip Hobsbaum (born 29 June 1932) is an academic, poet and critic. ...
James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9, 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories and plays. ...
Liz Lochhead (born December 26, 1947) is a Scottish poet and dramatist, originally from Motherwell. ...
Tom Leonard is the name of several notable people. ...
Gray illustrates his books himself, and has produced many murals as well as paintings. One of his longest-lasting murals can be seen, for free, in the Ubiquitous Chip restaurant in the West End of Glasgow. Salle des illustres, ceiling painting, by Jean André Rixens. ...
Ashton Lane. ...
The West End of Glasgow is an area in Glasgow. ...
In 2001 he stood as the candidate of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association for the post of Rector of the University of Glasgow, but was eventually narrowly defeated by Greg Hemphill. The Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association (GUSNA) was formed in 1927 by students at the University of Glasgow who believed in Scottish independence. ...
The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings. ...
The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451, in Glasgow, Scotland. ...
Greg Hemphill is a comedian, TV and radio presenter from Glasgow, Scotland. ...
He has been married twice: firstly to Inge Sorenson (1961-1970), and since 1991 to Morag McAlpine. He has one son, Andrew, born in 1964. He still lives in the West End of Glasgow. The West End of Glasgow is an area in Glasgow. ...
He produced the ceiling mural for The Auditorium of the Oran Mor on Byres Road in Glasgow, one of the largest pieces of art in Scotland.
Quotes - "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." (Various works.)
- "It is plain that the vaster the social unit, the less possible is true democracy." Lanark, p.289
- "Who did the council fight?"
- "It split in two and fought itself."
- "That's suicide!"
- "No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation."
- "I refuse to believe men kill each other just to make their enemies rich."
- "How can men recognize their real enemies when their family, schools and work teach them to struggle with each other and to believe law and decency come from the teachers?"
- "My son won't be taught that," said Lanark firmly.
- "You have a son?"
- "Not yet." Lanark, p.411
The frontispiece of book four of the novel, after that of Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Lanark (subtitled A Life in Four Books; ISBN 1841951838) was the first novel of Alasdair Gray, and is still his best known. ...
The frontispiece of book four of the novel, after that of Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Lanark (subtitled A Life in Four Books; ISBN 1841951838) was the first novel of Alasdair Gray, and is still his best known. ...
Literary works
 Book cover designed and Illustrated by Alasdair Gray. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (491x730, 88 KB) Low resolution scan of front cover of The Book of Prefaces, by Alasdair Gray, Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2000 (2002 paperback edition) ISBN 0747559120 which is in my possession: Cover design and typography by Alasdair Gray Image to illustrate...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (491x730, 88 KB) Low resolution scan of front cover of The Book of Prefaces, by Alasdair Gray, Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2000 (2002 paperback edition) ISBN 0747559120 which is in my possession: Cover design and typography by Alasdair Gray Image to illustrate...
Novels The frontispiece of book four of the novel, after that of Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Lanark (subtitled A Life in Four Books; ISBN 1841951838) was the first novel of Alasdair Gray, and is still his best known. ...
The cover of the hardback edition; the background of Ys is a reference to sexual practices described in the book 1982, Janine is a novel by the Scottish author Alasdair Gray. ...
Something Leather is a novel by Alasdair Gray which was published in 1990. ...
Poor Things is a novel by Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, published in 1992. ...
A History Maker is a novel by Alisdair Gray first published in 1994. ...
Short stories - Lean Tales (1985) (with James Kelman and Agnes Owens)
- Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
- Ten Tales Tall & True (1993)
- Mavis Belfrage (1996)
- The Ends of Our Tethers (2003)
Lean Tales is an anthology of short stories written by Scottish authors Alasdair Gray, Agnes Owens and James Kelman, with author illustrations by Alasdair Gray. ...
James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9, 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories and plays. ...
Agnes Owens is a Scottish author who has spent most of her life on the west coast, Owens has been married twice and raised seven children, also working as a cleaner, typist and factory worker. ...
Poetry - Old Negatives (1989)
- Sixteen Occasional Poems (2000)
Non-fiction - Why Scots Should Rule Scotland (1992; revised 1997)
- The Book of Prefaces (2000)
- Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (2001; includes contributions by Gray himself.)
Book cover designed and Illustrated by [[[Alasdair Gray]]. The Book of Prefaces, Edited and Glossed by the Scottish artist and novelist Alasdair Gray, provides a history of how literature spread and developed through the nations of England, Ireland, Scotland, and the United States. ...
Dramatic works (incomplete)
Theatre The Loss of the Golden Silence is a two-person play about domestic tension by Alasdair Gray, first performed at the Pool Lunch Hour Theatre, Edinburgh in 1973, and later broadcast on radio by the Scottish BBC in 1974, under producer Stewart Conn. ...
Television A series of three plays by Alasdair Gray about life in nineteenth century Scotland, commissioned by Malcolm Hossack of Scottish BBC Educational Television. ...
Play by Alasdair Gray, recorded on 6th January 1972 and broadcast as the last episode of the BBC TV series The Group. ...
Radio The Loss Of The Golden Silence (1973) The Loss of the Golden Silence is a two-person play about domestic tension by Alasdair Gray, first performed at the Pool Lunch Hour Theatre, Edinburgh in 1973, and later broadcast on radio by the Scottish BBC in 1974, under producer Stewart Conn. ...
References - ^ National Library of Scotland
- ^ Moores ed. Alasdair Gray: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography (2001) p. 4.
- ^ Gray, The Ends of Our Tethers, Dustjacket (recto).
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