“Gray’s idiom may be modern, but it embraces many traditional things; not only autobiographical realism, but low comedy, afterlife fantasy, scattershot satire, nightmarish allegory, self-referential metafiction, tender eroticism, lunatic scholarship and profuse literary borrowings.” —David... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-19 09:57:38 UTC ]
He didn’t publish his first novel (which he illustrated himself) until he was 46. But his impact, as both a writer and an artist, has lasted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-11 01:15:42 UTC ]
Alasdair Gray has won the inaugural Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Scottish literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 08:58:03 UTC ]
Canongate is to publish Alasdair Gray’s Dante's Sublime Comedy: A Paraphrase in Prosaic English Rhyme in winter 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian Rankin, A L Kennedy, Andrew O'Hagan, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson and Robin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]