George Mackay Brown
George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands in 1921. He studied at Newbattle Abbey under Edwin Muir and for a degree in English at Edinburgh University. His first book appeared in 1954. Since then he has published many books including plays, novels and collections of short stories of which the most recent is The Masked Fisherman. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has set to music several of George Mackay Brown's poems and other works. The Bard of Orkney died in 1996.
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