![]() ![]() It was as a student that he first embarked on what would become his novel Lanark.Īfter his graduation Gray worked as a scene and portrait painter, as well as an independent artist and writer. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1952 to 1957, and taught there from 1958 to 1962. ![]() His family lived on a council estate, and Gray received his education from a combination of state education, public libraries and public service broadcasting. ![]() During the Second World War he was evacuated to Perthshire, then Lanarkshire, experiences which he drew on in his later fiction. Gray was born in the Riddrie area of Glasgow. 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. His most acclaimed novel is Lanark, published in 1981 and written over a period of almost 30 years. 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, commissioned for Òran Mór by Colin Beattie. ![]()
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