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A radical painter and writer, Alasdair Gray’s work was full of bold visions for an independent Scotland.
The author of Shuggie Bain returns to the public housing schemes of 1980s working-class Glasgow to explore the redemptive power of secure love and the dangers of violent, dominating masculinity.
Despite little formal education, Hogg wrote one of the finest novels in Scottish literature, a disturbing tale of the divided self that still resonates.
The story of child poverty in 1980s Glasgow speaks to current concerns across the UK.
Writing vividly about her beloved Aberdeenshire landscape has reconnected many readers and writers to nature, underscoring the need to protect our fragile environment.
The politics may have changed over the years, but the literary obsessions of ‘northern Britain’ seem hard to shake.
Scotland’s literary culture is dominated by a male perspective. So as Burns Night approaches, it’s time to give prominence to a female voice – written in both English and Scots.
Of all his characters, Sir Walter Scott’s outlaw Rob Roy appealed most to the public and has paved the way for outsider heroes ever since.
Robert Duncan Milne made HG Wells struggle to keep up.
Robert Burns may have lost some of the nationalist charge behind his popularity since Scotland voted No in last year’s referendum. But the celebrated poet continues to be fêted internationally during annual…
This week sees the 200-year anniversary of the publication of Walter Scott’s first novel Waverley. Journalist Stuart Kelly has called Scott “the man who invented a nation” but what is Scott’s relevance…
It’s been 21 years since the publication of Irvine Welsh’s groundbreaking and controversial novel, Trainspotting. Since then, it has been widely praised and criticised, rejected by a mainstream audience…
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Professor of English Literature, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor of English, Youngstown State University
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Senior lecturer and head of the Creative Writing program, The University of Melbourne
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Cultural engagement officer, Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen
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Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow
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Professor of English and Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen
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Reader in English, University of Dundee
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Stirling
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, UNSW
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