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Writing Scotland Scotland's Writers
The lives and works of Scottish writers featured in 'Writing Scotland'
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AL Kennedy
1965 -
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Alasdair Gray
1934 -
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Alexander Trocchi
1925 - 1984
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Allan Ramsay
1686 - 1758
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Catherine Carswell
1879 - 1946
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Douglas Dunn
1942 -
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Edwin Morgan
1920 - 2010
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Edwin Muir
1887 - 1959
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George Douglas Brown
1869 - 1902
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George MacDonald
1824 - 1905
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George MacKay Brown
1921 - 1996
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Hamish Henderson
1919 - 2002
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Hugh MacDiarmid
1892 - 1978
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Iain Crichton Smith
1928 - 1998
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Iain M Banks
1954 - 2013
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Ian Rankin
1960 -
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J M Barrie
1860 - 1937
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Jackie Kay
1961 -
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James Hogg
1770 - 1835
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James Kelman
1946 -
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James Thomson
1834 - 1882
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John Buchan
1875 - 1940
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John Galt
1779 - 1839
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John Robin Jenkins
1912 - 2005
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon
1901 - 1935
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Liz Lochhead
1947 -
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Margaret Oliphant
1828 - 1897
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Muriel Spark
1918 - 2006
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Neil M Gunn
1891 - 1973
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Neil Munro
1863 - 1930
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Norman MacCaig
1910 - 1996
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Robert Burns
1759 - 1796
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Robert Fergusson
1750 - 1774
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Robert Garioch
1909 - 1981
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Robert Henryson
1450 - 1505
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Robert Louis Stevenson
1850 - 1894
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Sorley MacLean
1911 - 1996
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Tom Leonard
1944 -
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Walter Scott
1771 - 1832
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Willa Muir
1890 - 1970
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William Dunbar
1460 - 1513
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William McIlvanney
1936 -2015
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William Soutar
1898 - 1943
