George Mackay Brown
# George Mackay Brown

George Mackay Brown né le 17 octobre 1921 mort le 13 avril 1996 est un poète, romancier et dramaturge écossais.

## Biographie

George Mackay Brown est le cadet d'une famille de six enfants. Il vit la plus grande partie de sa vie à Stromness dans les Orcades Il fait ses études à la Newbattle Abbey College et étudie la littérature à l'Université d'Édimbourg. Le 23 décembre 1961 il se convertit à la religion catholique et le jour suivant il fait sa communion solennelle.

## Œuvre

### Poésie

* The Storm (1954)
* Loaves and Fishes (1959)
* The Year of the Whale (1965)
* Fishermen with Ploughs (1971)
* Poems New and Selected (1971)
* Winterfold (1976)
* Voyages (1983)
* The Wreck of the Archangel (1989)
* Tryst on Egilsay (1989)
* Brodgar Poems (1992)
* Foresterhill (1992)
* Following a Lark (1996)
* Water (1996)
* Travellers: poems (2001)
* Collected Poems (2005)

### Nouvelles

* A Calendar of Love (1967)
* A Time to Keep (1969)
* Hawkfall (1974)
* The Sun's Net (1976)
* Andrina and Other Stories (1983)
* The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories (1989)
* The Sea-King's Daughter (1991)
* Winter Tales (1995)
* The Island of the Women and Other Stories (1998)

### Théâtre

* A Spell for Green Corn (1970)
* Three Plays: The Loom of Light, The Well and The Voyage of Saint Brandon (1984)

### Romans

* Greenvoe (1972)
* Magnus (1973)
* Time in a Red Coat (1984)
* The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories (1987) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
* Vinland (1992)
* Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) shortlisted for Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society

### Essais récits autobiographiques

* An Orkney Tapestry (1969)
* Letters from Hamnavoe (1975)
* Under Brinkie's Brae (1979)
* Portrait of Orkney (1981)
* Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary, 1979-91 (1992)
* For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography (1997)
* Stained Glass Windows (1998)
* Northern Lights (1999) (Includes Poetry)
* The First Wash of Spring (2006)

### Histoires pour enfants

* The Two Fiddlers (1974)
* Pictures in the Cave (1977)
* Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980)
