Alasdair Gray
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BIOGRAPHY
Alasdair Gray is an artist, writer, illustrator, and muralist. He is most notable for inspiring audiences with his epic novel Lanark (1981).
Gray was born in Riddrie, north-east Glasgow, son of working-class parents, and a lifelong socialist and Scottish nationalist. He lived in Glasgow all his life, save for a four-year spell during the second world war, when the family moved to Yorkshire. Gray is known locally for his eccentricity and internationally as a central figure of the literary world.
Gray is celebrated as “the father figure of the [late 20th century] renaissance in Scottish literature and art”. He was named Glasgow’s official artist recorder in 1977, and later received the inaugural Saltire Society Scottish Lifetime Achievement award. Gray passed in December 2019.
