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Alasdair Gray
Birth at
28 December 1934
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Alasdar Gray was born on 28 December 1934 in Glasgow, Scotland. He received an art education at the School of Art in Glasgow, worked as a drawing teacher, a design artist, a theater artist, and then became a "free artist" and playwright. In 1965-1976, 17 of his plays were staged on radio and television; later his other plays were successfully staged on the theater stage. Gray later turned to fiction, and he illustrated many of his books himself. His paintings are kept in various collections, museums
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Alasdar Gray was born on 28 December 1934 in Glasgow, Scotland. He received an art education at the School of Art in Glasgow, worked as a drawing teacher, a design artist, a theater artist, and then became a "free artist" and playwright. In 1965-1976, 17 of his plays were staged on radio and television; later his other plays were successfully staged on the theater stage. Gray later turned to fiction, and he illustrated many of his books himself. His paintings are kept in various collections, museums and galleries.
His first highly regarded book was published in 1981 - the novel "Lanark" was awarded several national awards. Other books by Alasdar Gray include Janine (1984), The Fall of Calvin Walker: A History of the Sixties (1985), The Something Leather (1990), McGrotti and Lyudmila (1990). The novel “Poor and unhappy” (1992) was awarded the prestigious prize “Whitbred” and the newspaper “The Guardian”. Among the collections of short stories of the writer, the most famous are From the History of One World (1983), awarded the Cheltenham Prize, and Ten Tales Tall and True (1993). In 2003, Alasdar Gray published his new book, The Ends of Our Tethers: 13 Sorry Stories (2003). In 2001, he was invited as a lecturer in writing courses in Glasgow and at the University of Strathclyde.