Aonghas MacNeacail
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Early life
Angus Nicolson was born in Uig on the Isle of Skye on 7 June 1942.[1] He was raised in Idrigill, speaking Gaelic as a child.[2] He attended Uig Primary School and Portree High School, and from 1968 the University of Glasgow[2] where he was one of a group of young writers who gathered around Philip Hobsbaum which also included James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead and Jeff Torrington. Growing up, he changed his registered birth name to Aonghas MacNeacail, the Scottish Gaelic version of his name.
Career
Besides drawing on Gaelic traditions, MacNeacail was influenced by the Black Mountain School of the United States. He held writing fellowships in Scotland, including residences at the Gaelic college of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, and read his work at festivals around the world. He collaborated with musicians and visual artists, and written drama. His poetry has been widely published throughout the English speaking world in journals such as Ploughshares, Poetry Australia, World Poetry Almanac, and JuxtaProse Literary Magazine. He also received wide recognition and critical acclaim for his screenwriting and songwriting.
MacNeacail won the Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year with his third collection, Script error: No such module "Lang". ("A Proper Schooling and other poems"), in 1997. His collection Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Hymn to a Young Demon") was published by Polygon in 2007. He was the partner of the actor and writer Gerda Stevenson.[3]
Death
MacNeacail died in December 2022, at the age of 80.[4][5]
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