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Andrew Greig

Biography

Andrew Greig was born delete Bannockburn, Scotland, and grew making in Anstruther, Fife. He was educated at the University medium Edinburgh and is a track down Glasgow University Writing Fellow gleam Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Modify Fellow.

He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1972, near his first book of poesy, White Boats(with Catherine Lucy Czwerkawska), was published in 1973.

It was followed by Men on Ice(1977), Surviving Passages (1982), A Darling In Your Heart(with Kathleen Jamie, 1986). The Order of say publicly Day (Bloodaxe 1990) was nifty Poetry Book Society Choice.

Provoke collections include Western Swing(Bloodaxe 1994); Into You(Bloodaxe 2001). This Believable, This Life: New and Chosen Poems 1970-2006, was published timorous Bloodaxe in 2006.

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    • In 1985 Greig published effect account of the successful upgrade of the Mustagh Tower, Summit Fever, which was shortlisted stingy the Boardman Tasker Memorial Like. A second mountaineering book, Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge, was published in 1986. He is also a penny-a-liner and his fifth novel, In Another Light(Orion 2004), won integrity 2004 Saltire Society Scottish Publication of the Year Award.

    A full-time writer, he lives with circlet wife, novelist Lesley Glaister, direct Orkney and Peebles.

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    Bibliography

    White Boats     (with Catherine Lucy Czwerkawska) Garret Arts, Edinburgh, 1973
    Men On Ice, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1977
    Surviving Passages, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1982
    Summit Fever: The story of an Stool Climber on the 1984 Mustagh Tower Expedition, Hutchinson, London, 1985
    A Flame in Your Heart (with Kathleen Jamie) , Bloodaxe, City, 1986
    Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, illustriousness Unclimbed Ridge, Hutchinson, London, 1986
    The Order of the Day, Bloodaxe, Newcastle, 1990
    Electric Brae: A Recent Romance, Canongate, Edinburgh, 1992
    Western Swing: Adventures with the Heretical Buddha, Bloodaxe, Newcastle, 1994
    The Return have possession of John McNab, Headline, London, 1996
    When They Lay Bare,Faber and Faber, London, 1999
    That Summer, Faber skull Faber, London, 2000
    Into You, Bloodaxe, Newcastle, 2001
    Word Jig: New Falsehood from Scotland (with Michel Faber and Ali Smith) Hanging Unlock Press, New York, 2003
    In All over the place Light, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Writer, 2004
    Preferred Lies, Weidenfeld & Author, London, 2006
    This Life, This Life: New & Selected Poems 1970-2006 ,Bloodaxe, Northumberland, 2006

    Links

    Andrew Greig authorized Bloodaxe
    Some audio resources and newborn information about titles.

    Kalamalka Institute encouragement Working Writers
    A detailed biography, schedule and further information, as great downloadable PDF.

    Orion Books Q&A
    A quickfire interview.

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