Brown, George Mackay

George Mackay Brown, ©Foto:www.rit.fo George Mackay Brown

*17.Oktober 1921 in Stromness auf Mainland, +13.April 1996 in Stromness/Orkney

Stationen u.a.: Schottischer Dichter. Wächst in Mainland auf. Studium Anglistik in Edinburg. Lehrer in Schottland. 1967 Rückkehr nach Stromness auf die Orkneys.

Arbeitsgebiete: Gedicht, Essay, Kinderbuch, Erzählung, Roman, Theaterstück

Auszeichnungen/Ehrungen/Preise (Auswahl): Arts Council Grant for Poetry (1965). The Society of Authors‘ Travel Award (1968). The Scottish Arts Council Literature Prize (1969). The Kathrine Mansfield Menton Short Story Prize (1971). O.B.E. (1974,). James Tait Black Prize, (1987).

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl): The Storm, Gedichte (1954). Loaves and Fishes, Gedichte (1959). The Year of the Whale, Gedichte (1965). A Calendar of Love, Prosa (1967). A Time to Keep, Prosa (1969). An Orkney Tapestry, Essay (1969). A Spell for Green Corn, Theaterstück (1970). Fishermen with Ploughs, Gedichte (1971). Poems New and Selected, Gedichte (1971). Greenvoe, Prosa (1972/1996). Magnus, Prosa (1973/1998). The Two Fiddlers, Kinderbuch (1974). Hawkfall, Prosa (1974). Letters from Hamnayoe, Essay (1975). Winterfold, Gedichte (1976). The Sun's Net, Prosa (1976). Selected Poems (1977). Picture in the Cave, Kinderbuch (1977). Under Brinkie's Brae, Essay (1979). Six Lives of Finkle the Cat, Kinderbuch (1980). Portrait of Orkney, Essay (1981). Voyages, Gedichte (1983). Andrina and other Stories (1983/1990). Three Plays, Theaterstück (1984). Time in a Red Coat, Prosa (1984). The Loom of Light, Theaterstück (1986). The Golden Bird, Prosa (1987/1994). The Masked Fisherman, Prosa (1989/1990). Wreck of the Archangel, Gedichte (1989). Letters to Gypsy, Essay (1990). A Celebration for St. Magnus, Theaterstück (1990). The Sea-King's Daughter, Prosa (1991). Rockpools and Daffodils, Prosa (1992). Vinland, Prosa (1992/1993). Foresterkill, Gedichte (1992, Babel-Verlag). The Sea and the Tower (1994). Beside the Ocean of Time, Prosa (1994/1995). Winter Tales, Prosa (1995). Following a lark, Gedichte (1996). The Island of the Woman, Prosa (1998). Sally, Gedichtauswahl (1998). Travellers, Gedichte (2001). Staubkorn vom Boden des Himmels, Gedichte, 2sprachig (2001, Babel-Verlag - Übertragung Kevin Perryman).