Scottish Writers' Centre In Process Masterclass with Alasdair Gray - CANCELLED

Please note, unfortunately due to ill health this event has been cancelled. We wish Alasdair well in his recovery.

Alasdair Gray (born December 28th, 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. Perhaps his most acclaimed work is the novel Lanark (Alasdair’s debut title, published in 1981 and written over a period of almost thirty years). It is now regarded as a classic, and was described by the Guardian as “one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction.” His book, Poor Things (1992), won the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize. He describes himself as a civic nationalist and a republican.

Alasdair’s works combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction, in addition to the clever use of typography and his own illustrations. He has also written on politics, in support of socialism and Scottish independence, and on the history of English literature. He has been described by author Will Self as “a creative polymath with an integrated politico-philosophic vision”, and as “a great writer, perhaps the greatest living in this archipelago today”. Alasdair, meanwhile, describes himself as “a fat, spectacled, balding, increasingly old Glasgow pedestrian.”