George mackay brown, poet and novelist, died.

April 13th , 1996

George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.

Selected works

Poetry collections

  • 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)

Short story collections

  • 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)
  • Simple Fire (2021)

Plays

  • A Spell for Green Corn (1970)
  • Three Plays: The Loom of Light, The Well and The Voyage of Saint Brandon (1984)

Novels

  • 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

Essays collections and autobiography

  • 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)

Children’s story collection

  • The Two Fiddlers (1974)
  • Pictures in the Cave (1977)
  • Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980)

Discography

  • For the Islands I Sing

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