Alasdair Gray

Alasdair James Gray 28 December 1934 29 December 2019 was a Scottish writer and artist His first novel Lanark 1981 is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction He published novels short stories plays poetry and translations and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature His works of fiction combine realism fantasy and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations and won several awards