Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) was a Scottish novelist, artist, and muralist renowned for his postmodern works blending realism, fantasy, and science fiction, often featuring his own illustrations. His debut novel Lanark (1981) is a landmark of Scottish literature, with other notable works including 1982, Janine (1984), and Poor Things (1992), which won the Whitbread Novel Award and Guardian Fiction Prize; he received the inaugural Saltire Society Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.