George Mackay Brown

George Mackay Brown OBE ( born October 17, 1921 in Stromness, Orkney, † 13 April 1996 ) was a living on Orkney Scottish poet and writer. He wrote poems, dramas, novels, short stories, essays, children's stories, plays and fairy tales. A part of its comprehensive over 80 titles plant is available in German translation.

Life

George Mackay Brown, the youngest of six children of postal officials John Brown and his wife Mary Jane Mackay Brown, lived and lived in Stromness and left the islands rarely and only for short trips, which hardly took him beyond the borders of the United Kingdom also. For ten years he suffered from severe tuberculosis disease and could therefore pursue any regular occupation. It was not until the age of 34 he could start in Newbattle Abbey in Edinburgh to study English literature. Many of his texts were set to music by the composer Peter Maxwell Davies, whose musical style influenced the close collaboration with the poet sustainable. Although he began writing at an early age, he was known only at the age of 60 years the general public. Brown, a member of the Poets' Pub, a circle of the writing and sealing vanguard of Scotland from the 1940er/1950er years, applies his poetic work as one of the leading poets of the 20th century in Scotland.

Works (excerpt)

  • Beside the Ocean of Time / scamp and poets dream, novel 1994
  • Vinland / Wine Country, novel 1993
  • Six Lives of Fankle the Cat, children's stories in 1980
  • For the Islands I Sing / The singer on the island, autobiography, 2000
  • Travellers, poems 2001

Awards

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