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George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.
George Mackay Brown was a seminal figure in Scottish letters from mid-century until his death in 1996. He wrote of life and nature in his native Orkney Islands, his fertile imagination encompassing poetry, novels, children’s stories, essays, plays, and media pieces.
George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, on 17 October 1921. He was educated at Stromness Academy, Newbattle Abbey College (1951-52) and Edinburgh University, from which he graduated MA in 1960. He received an MA from the Open University in 1976.
George Mackay Brown was a Scottish writer who celebrated Orkneyan life and its ancient rhythms in verse, short stories, and novels. Brown was the son of a Gaelic-speaking Highlander and an Orkney postman. He studied at Newbattle Abbey College, near Edinburgh, where Orkney poet Edwin Muir encouraged.
George Mackay Brown (1921-1996) was born in the remote Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland and apart from two periods of education at Newbattle Abbey College and the University of Edinburgh, he lived there all his life.
May 28, 2024 · George Mackay Brown (1921-1996), was a key figure in 20th-century Scottish literature, achieving equal prominence as poet, novelist, and short-story writer. His work was rooted in the history, mythology, landscape, and speech of his native Orkney.
George Mackay Brown, the poet, novelist and dramatist, spent his life living in and documenting the Orkney Isles, situated off the north coast of Scotland. He was born in Stromness on the...
George Mackay Brown was one of the 20th century’s most distinguished and original writers. His birthplace, and lifelong inspiration, was Stromness in Orkney.
George Mackay Brown, poet and novelist, was born in Stromness, Orkney, in 1921. His books include The Storm (1954), Loaves and Fishes (1959), The Year of the Whale (1965), Fishermen with Ploughs (1971), Greenvoe (1972), Magnus (1973), Winterfold (1976), Time in a Red Coat (1984), The Wreck of the Archangel (1989), Selected Poems 1954-1983 (1991 ...
George Mackay Brown is one of the famous Scots commemorated in our Archivists' Garden. The entry on the rowan tree includes quotes from one of his poems. Birth in 1921. George...
