Andrew Greig
Template:Short description Template:For multi Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Andrew Greig (born 23 September 1951) is a Scottish writer. He was born in Bannockburn, near Stirling,[1] and grew up in Anstruther, Fife. He studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and is a former Glasgow University Writing Fellow and Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Exchange FellowScript error: No such module "Unsubst".. He lives in Orkney and Edinburgh and is married to author Lesley Glaister.[2]
Awards
He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1972.[3] In 1985, Greig published an account of the successful ascent of the Muztagh Tower in the Himalayas. Summit Fever: The Story of an Armchair Climber was shortlisted for the 1996 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.[4]
His first novel, Electric Brae: A Modern Romance (1992), was shortlisted for the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year.[5] His next novel, The Return of John MacNab (1996) was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award.[5] His fifth novel, In Another Light (2004), won the 2004 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award.[6] Fair Helen was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize (2014).[7]
Published work
Poetry
- White Boats (with Catherine Czerkawska) (1973)
- Men On Ice (Canongate 1977)
- Surviving Passages (Canongate 1982)
- A Flame in your Heart (with Kathleen Jamie) (Bloodaxe 1987)
- The Order of the Day (Bloodaxe 1989)
- Western Swing (Bloodaxe c. 1993)
- Into You (Bloodaxe 2000)
- This Life, This Life (new and Selected Poems) (Bloodaxe 2006)
- Getting Higher: The Complete Mountain Poems (Birlinn 2011)
Climbing
- Men on Ice (1977)
- Summit Fever: The Story of an Armchair Climber (1985)
- Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge (1986)
- The Order of the Day (1990)
Non-Fiction
- Preferred Lies: A Journey to the Heart of Scottish Golf (2006)
- At the Loch of the Green Corrie (2010)
Fiction
- Electric Brae: A Modern Romance (1992)
- The Return of John MacNab (1996)
- When They Lay Bare (1999)
- That Summer (2000) (published as The Clouds Above : A Novel of Love and War in some markets)
- In Another Light (2004)
- Romanno Bridge (2008)
- Fair Helen (2013)
- Rose Nicolson (2021)
Articles
- A White Elephant in Anstruther, in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 32, November 1983, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".
References
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- ↑ Rush, Christopher, "Elephants in Anstruther: In Search of the Scottish Identity", in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 31, August 1983, pp. 43 - 48, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".
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External links
Further reading
- Rush, Christopher (1983), Elephants in Anstruther: In Search of the Scottish Identity, in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 31, August 1983, pp. 43 – 48, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".
- Scott, Alexander (1984), Pink Elephants in Anstruther: Scottish Identity, in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 33, February 1984, pp. 3 – 8, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".
- Corbett, John, "The Stalking Cure: John Buchan, Andrew Greig and John Macnab", in Scot Lit No. 30, 2004, Association for Scottish Literary Studies, Template:Catalog lookup linkScript error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".Script error: No such module "check isxn".