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Alasdair Gray

(Alasdair James Gray)
Scotland (1934 - 2019)

Since 1981, when Alasdair Gray's first novel Lanark: A Life in Four Books was published by Canongate, he published more than twenty novels as well as numerous plays, poems and collections of short stories.

Awards: Saltire (2011), Whitbread (1992) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Lanark (1981)
   1982 Janine (1984)
   The Fall of Kevin Walker (1985)
   Old Negatives (1989)
   McGrotty and Ludmilla (1990)
   Something Leather (1990)
   Poor Things (1992)
   A History Maker (1994)
   Old Men in Love (2007)

Collections

   Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)
   Lean Tales (1985) (with James Kelman and Agnes Owens)
   Ten Tales Tall and True (1987)
   Mavis Belfrage (1996)
   Sixteen Occasional Poems (poems) (2000)
   The Ends of Our Tethers (2003)
   A Gray Play Book (2009)
   Collected Verse (poems) (2010)
   Every Short Story by Alasdair Gray 1952-2012 (2012)
   Hell: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part One (poems) (2018) (with Dante Alighieri)
   Purgatory: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Two (poems) (2019) (with Dante Alighieri)
   Paradise: Dante's Divine Trilogy Part Three (poems) (2020) (with Dante Alighieri)
   Dante's Divine Trilogy (poems) (2022) (with Dante Alighieri)

Anthologies edited

The Book of Prefaces (2000)

Series contributed to

Elsewhere
1. Here (2012) (with others)

Plays show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Alasdair Gray

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy (2020)
edited by
Ann Vandermeer and Jeff VanderMeer

Best European Fiction 2010 (2009)
(Best European Fiction)
edited by
Aleksandar Hemon

Awards

	2011 Saltire Literary Award : A Life In Pictures
	1992 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel : Poor Things
	1992 Guardian Fiction Prize : Poor Things
	1982 Saltire Literary Award : Lanark: A Life in Four Books

Award nominations

1982 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Lanark: A Life in Four Books

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