Introduced by Will Self
Born in 1934, Alasdair Gray graduated in design and mural painting
from Glasgow School of Art. Since 1981, when Lanark was published
by Canongate, he has written, designed and illustrated seven
novels, several books of short stories, a collection of his stage,
radio and TV plays and a book of his visual art, A Life in
Pictures.
In his own words, 'Alasdair Gray is a fat, spectacled, balding,
increasingly old Glaswegian pedestrian who has mainly lived by
writing and designing books, most of them fiction.'
* A great writer, perhaps the greatest living in Britain today. -- Will Self * 1982, Janine has a verbal energy, an intensity of vision that has mostly been missing from the English novel since D.H. Lawrence. New York Times * Made me realise that contemporary fiction would still be a vivid and vital way of interpreting the world ... 1982, Janine revived my flagging impetus to continue writing myself. -- Jonathan Coe * Alasdair Gray is that rather rare bird among contemporary British writers-a genuine experimentalist ... The influence of James Joyce, and ... Laurence Stern, is very evident, but Gray does not seem merely derivative from these masters. He is very much his own man. -- David Lodge
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