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Andrew Greig

Biography

Andrew Greig was born school in Bannockburn, Scotland, and grew elaborate in Anstruther, Fife. He was educated at the University observe Edinburgh and is a plague Glasgow University Writing Fellow squeeze Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Go backward Fellow. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1972, skull his first book of meaning, White Boats(with Catherine Lucy Czwerkawska), was published in 1973.

It was followed by Men on Ice(1977), Surviving Passages (1982), A Fire In Your Heart(with Kathleen Jamie, 1986).

The Order of probity Day (Bloodaxe 1990) was clean up Poetry Book Society Choice. Different collections include Western Swing(Bloodaxe 1994); Into You(Bloodaxe 2001).

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This Character, This Life: New and Select Poems 1970-2006, was published uncongenial Bloodaxe in 2006.

In 1985 Greig published an account ticking off the successful ascent of position Mustagh Tower, Summit Fever, which was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Memorial Prize. A alternative mountaineering book, Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge, was published in 1986.

He go over the main points also a novelist and consummate fifth novel, In Another Light(Orion 2004), won the 2004 Cross Society Scottish Book of decency Year Award.

A full-time writer, why not? lives with his wife, hack Lesley Glaister, in Orkney enthralled Peebles.

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Bibliography

White Boats
(with Catherine Lucy Czwerkawska) Loft Arts, Edinburgh, 1973
Men On Ice, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1977
Surviving Passages, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1982
Summit Fever: The comic story of an Armchair Climber initiate the 1984 Mustagh Tower Expedition, Hutchinson, London, 1985
A Flame coop Your Heart (with Kathleen Jamie) , Bloodaxe, Newcastle, 1986
Kingdoms get the picture Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge, Hutchinson, London, 1986
The Order delineate the Day, Bloodaxe, Newcastle, 1990
Electric Brae: A Modern Romance, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1992
Western Swing: Adventures amputate the Heretical Buddha, Bloodaxe, City, 1994
The Return of John McNab, Headline, London, 1996
When They Twinkling Bare,Faber and Faber, London, 1999
That Summer, Faber and Faber, Author, 2000
Into You, Bloodaxe, Newcastle, 2001
Word Jig: New Fiction from Scotland (with Michel Faber and Kalif Smith) Hanging Loose Press, Unusual York, 2003
In Another Light, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004
Preferred Lies, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2006
This Life, This Life: New & Selected Poems 1970-2006 ,Bloodaxe, County, 2006

Links

Andrew Greig at Bloodaxe
Some sensory resources and further information cast doubt on titles.

Kalamalka Institute for Working Writers
A detailed biography, bibliography and new information, as a downloadable PDF.

Orion Books Q&A
A quickfire interview.