George Mackay Brown
George Mackay Brown
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George Mackay Brown né le mort le est un poète, romancier et dramaturge écossais.
Biographie modifier
George Mackay Brown est le cadet d'une famille de six enfants. Il vit la plus grande partie de sa vie à Stromness dans les Orcades Il fait ses études à la Newbattle Abbey College et étudie la littérature à l'Université d'Édimbourg. Le il se convertit à la religion catholique et le jour suivant il fait sa communion solennelle.
Œuvre modifier
Poésie modifier
- The Storm (1954)
- Loaves and Fishes (1959)
- The Year of the Whale (1965)
- Fishermen with Ploughs (1971)
- Poems New and Selected (1971)
- Winterfold (1976)
- Voyages (1983)
- The Wreck of the Archangel (1989)
- Tryst on Egilsay (1989)
- Brodgar Poems (1992)
- Foresterhill (1992)
- Following a Lark (1996)
- Water (1996)
- Travellers: poems (2001)
- Collected Poems (2005)
Nouvelles modifier
- A Calendar of Love (1967)
- A Time to Keep (1969)
- Hawkfall (1974)
- The Sun's Net (1976)
- Andrina and Other Stories (1983)
- The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories (1989)
- The Sea-King's Daughter (1991)
- Winter Tales (1995)
- The Island of the Women and Other Stories (1998)
Théâtre modifier
- A Spell for Green Corn (1970)
- Three Plays: The Loom of Light, The Well and The Voyage of Saint Brandon (1984)
Romans modifier
- Greenvoe (1972)
- Magnus (1973)
- Time in a Red Coat (1984)
- The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories (1987) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
- Vinland (1992)
- Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) shortlisted for Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society
Essais récits autobiographiques modifier
- An Orkney Tapestry (1969)
- Letters from Hamnavoe (1975)
- Under Brinkie's Brae (1979)
- Portrait of Orkney (1981)
- Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary, 1979-91 (1992)
- For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography (1997)
- Stained Glass Windows (1998)
- Northern Lights (1999) (Includes Poetry)
- The First Wash of Spring (2006)
Histoires pour enfants modifier
- The Two Fiddlers (1974)
- Pictures in the Cave (1977)
- Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980)
Liens externes modifier
- Ressources relatives à la littérature :
- « https://research.reading.ac.uk/diasporicarchives/collections/ » (consulté le )