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Alasdair Gray

Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards.

He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1952 to 1957. As well as his book illustrations, he painted portraits and murals, including one at the Òran Mór venue and one at Hillhead subway station. His artwork has been widely exhibited and is in several important collections. Before Lanark, he had plays performed on radio and TV.

His writing style is postmodern and has been compared with those of Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. It often contains extensive footnotes explaining the works that influenced it. His books inspired many younger Scottish writers, including Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. L. Kennedy, Janice Galloway, Chris Kelso and Iain Banks. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Glasgow from 1977 to 1979, and professor of Creative Writing at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities from 2001 to 2003.

Gray was a Scottish nationalist and a republican, and wrote supporting socialism and Scottish independence. He popularised the epigram "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" (paraphrased from Canadian poet Dennis Lee's poem Civil Elegies) which was engraved in the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh when it opened in 2004. He lived almost all his life in Glasgow, married twice, and had one son. On his death The Guardian referred to him as "the father figure of the renaissance in Scottish literature and art".

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День народження, дата народження
пʼятниця, 28 грудня 1934 р.
Місце народження
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90
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28 грудня 1934 р. був пʼятниця під знаком зірки ♑. Це був 361 день року. Президентом Сполучених Штатів був Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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28th of December 1934 News

Новини, як вони з'явилися на першій сторінці New York Times на 28 грудня 1934 р.

SWIM MEET AT N.Y.A.C.; Ohio State Among Teams in Quadrangular Event Tonight.

Date: 29 December 1934

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NEWS OF THE STAGE; ' Say When' to Close on Jan. 12 -- Eddie Dowling to Offer Posthumous Work of Victor Herbert.

Date: 29 December 1934

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DIVIDEND NEWS.

Date: 29 December 1934

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PRESIDENT SCORED 'BEAT' AS EDITOR; He Tells College News Men How He Printed The Harvard Crimson in the Yale Bowl.

Date: 29 December 1934

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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TOPICS IN WALL STREET.; News, Comment and Incident on the Stock Exchange and in the Financial Markets.

Date: 29 December 1934

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Einstein Offers New View Of Mass-Energy Theorem; Scientists Crowd Chamber at Pittsburgh as With Chalk and 3 Symbols He 'Repairs' Formula Showing Equivalence of Factors. EINSTEIN 'REPAIRS' MASS-ENERGY IDEA

Date: 29 December 1934

By WILLIAM L. LAURENCE.Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.By WILLIAM L. LAURENCE

William LAURENCE

A Einstein gives new view on identity of matter and energy

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CITY POWER FOUGHT BY BOARD OF TRADE; Executive Committee Demands Mayor Hold Hearing to Get Taxpayers' Views. MAGNUS CONDEMNS HASTE Not Campaign Pledge Backed by Voters, He Says -- Sees Opportunity for Politics.

Date: 29 December 1934

Bd of Trade opposes plant

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BOY SETS RECORD FOR MODEL PLANE; Philadelphian's Ship Driven by Rubber Band, Takes Off From Water and Flies 11 Minutes.

Date: 29 December 1934

Annual Eastern States Model Airplane Meet, N Y C; H Oslick sets endurance record; wins Mitten Trophy; M Webster wins Universal Model Airplane News Trophy

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MOSCOW IS SILENT ON ASSASSIN TRIAL; Fate of Nikolaieff and Thirteen Others Still a Mystery -- 19 Railway Workers Sentenced. NAME OF TOWN IS CHANGED Zinovievsk Becomes Kirovo in Honor of Slain Leader -- Press Hails Farm Gains.

Date: 29 December 1934

Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

no news of Nikolaev, Zinovieff and Kameneff; town of Zinovievsk becomes Kirovo; London repts Zinovieff and Kameneff in exile

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Ship News Reporters Elect.

Date: 29 December 1934

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