Alasdair Gray
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What makes the British short story special? In a trawl through thousands, Philip Hensher found a generous tradition that not only suits established writers but gives a platform to voices on the edge of society
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After Robert McCrum finished his two-year-long project compiling the best novels written in English, you had a lot to add. Here are the 15 books that received most votes to join the list
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Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh
David Greig captures the spirit of Alasdair Gray’s novel in a visually stunning production
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Last week we brought you our 10 best city novels. Here, we present your thoughts on those novels you think should make the list
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Sam Jordison: With its parallel and overlapping narratives, and its concerns with modern Scotland, this novel’s debt to Gray’s masterpiece is inescapable
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While Gray's cod history does the nationalists no favours, Brown makes a formidable case for a reimagined union, says Alexander Linklater
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The Edinburgh international book festival welcomes writers from all over the world. We've been asking writers such as Alasdair Gray, Neil Gaiman and Ruby Wax to come up with their favourite words and filming the results. Here you can watch the words they have chosen from 'a-whoring' to 'Zulu'
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Alasdair Gray says appointment of English people to cultural jobs in Scotland is part of part of anti-independence strategy
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From Charles Dickens to Angela Carter, these stories capture the high-mindedness, ambition and selfishness of this 'season of extremes'
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Scotland should thank the English settlers
Kevin McKennaKevin McKenna: Alasdair Gray has been unfairly accused of anti-Englishness, but his points are valid
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Deborah Orr: Alasdair Gray's contention that there are too many English people working in Scottish culture jobs reveals a disappointingly parochial attitude
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Edinburgh's secret sculptor has struck again, creating five magical paper models
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A hundred names from the Scottish arts establishment – including Ian Rankin, Douglas Gordon and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – have expressed their dismay at Creative Scotland's policies with a heartfelt open letter
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In our podcast from day four of the festival, Booker longlisted author Ned Beauman muses on The Teleportation Accident and Alasdair Gray considers the independence vote for Scotland
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Could there be a 'German bailout' for the RSC? The award refusal that was refused, and will Glasgow get a Turner?
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The Glaswegian writer and artist talks to Charlotte Higgins about his latest project, a mural in his local subway station
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The Edinburgh International Book Festival will close tonight with Alasdair Gray's version of Faust, starring Will Self, Liz Lochhead, Ian Rankin. John Dugdale gets a sneak preview
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'Most important Scottish writer since Walter Scott' speaks about masterpiece and more recent work at literary event
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He was appalled that the richest nations would only donate food to the most desperately poor in return for getting them into debt
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From fiction to poetry to children's illustrators, here is the pick of the events at the festival this year
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First painted when I was 15, this crowded together parts of Glasgow that excited me.
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We meet Nadifa Mohamed, shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, and forge a literary canon for the 21st century. Plus Alasdair Gray looks back on a life lived with words and pictures
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Writer and artist Alasdair Gray has completed a remarkable autobiography in words and pictures. Here he chooses three paintings from different stages in his life and explains how they came about
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Alasdair Gray is best-known as one of Scotland's foremost novelists, the author of groundbreaking works including Lanark and 1982, Janine. However, he is also an artist: as well as illustrating his own works, he is a remarkable portrait painter, and his odd, brilliant murals can be found on the walls of private and public buildings in his native Glasgow. A collection of his artwork, A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray, is newly published by Canongate
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The result is a picture as sprawling and rich as one of Gray's own murals says Lettie Ransley
Topics
- Fiction
- Scotland
- Edinburgh festival
- Edinburgh international book festival
- Art
- Scottish independence
- Festivals
- Edinburgh festival 2011
- Short stories
- Theatre
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Ian Rankin
- Robert Burns
- Art and design
- Val McDermid
- Scottish politics
- Liz Lochhead
- David Greig
- Edinburgh festival 2015
- Awards and prizes
Anatomy of an artwork Alasdair Gray's portrait of a Northern Venus is gothic and otherworldly