Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray is the Glasgow-born writer and artist responsible for the stunning ceiling mural in The Auditorium, one of the largest pieces of public art in Scotland.

His most acclaimed novel is Lanark, published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years. It is now regarded as a classic, and was described by The Guardian as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction." His novel Poor Things (1992) won the Whitbread Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize.

Gray was born in the Riddrie area of Glasgow. During the Second World War he was evacuated to Perthshire, then Lanarkshire, experiences which he drew on in his later fiction. His family lived on a council estate, and Gray received his education from a combination of state education, public libraries and public service broadcasting.

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