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George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney on 17 October 1921, the youngest son of a postman. His education was hampered by tuberculosis, which prevented him working after leaving school. In 1951 he entered Newbattle adult education college, where he encountered Edwin Muir, who was warden. Muir encouraged Brown to write, and Brown went on to do postgraduate work on Gerard Manley Hopkins at Edinburgh University. Brown's work draws on his Orkney background and includes poetry, short stories, and novels, the last of which, "Beside The Ocean Of Time", was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Let's See the Orkney Islands (1948); The Storm (1954); Loaves and Fishes (1959); The Year of the Whale (1965); A Calendar of Love (1967); Twelve Poems (1968); An Orkney Tapestry (1969); A Time to Keep (1969); A Spell for Green Corn (1970); Fisher- men with Ploughs (1971); Lifeboat and Other Poems (1971); Poems, New and Selected (1971); Greenvor (1972); Magnus (1973); Hawkfall (1974); The Two Fiddlers (1974); Edwin Muir: a Memoir (1975); Letters from Hamnavoe (1975); The Sun's Net (1976); Winterfold (1976); Pictures in the Cave (1977); Selected Poems (1977); Witch and Other Stories (1977); Under Brinkie's Brae (1979); Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980); Portrait of Orkney (1981); Andrino (1983) ed., Orkney Short Stories (1983); Voyages (1983); Christmas Poems (1984); Three Plays (1984); Time in a Red Coat (1984); Christmas Stories (1985); The Hounded Fisherman (1985); Keepers of Our House (1986); A Celebration for Magnus (1987); ed Edwin Muir: Selected Prose (1987); The Golden Bird (1987); Stone (1987); Portrait of Orkney (1988); The Scottish Bestiary (1988); Songs for St Magnus Day (1988); The Mask (1989); The Wreck of the Archangel (1989); Letters to Gypsy (1990); The Sea King's Daughter (1991); Selected Poems 1954-1983 (1991); Vinland (1992).
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