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ASL is an educational charity, promoting the reading, writing, teaching and study of Scotland's literature and languages, past and present.

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What Scotsman was caught up in a civil war before the age of twenty? Wrote a book that became the inspiration for an Oscar-winning film? Met a runaway teenager in Paris and married her against the wishes of his family? Lost his ranch to raiding Apaches?

Buckle up – it’s going to be a long, wild #Scottish #literature 🧵 …

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Iain M. Banks (1954–2013) was born , 16 Feb—a 🎂 🧵
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“Iain Banks… is a novelist who has his own ‘double’, an author for whom the idea of a split writing persona is emphatically not out of place”

—“Reading Double, Writing Double: The Fiction of Iain (M) Banks” – a 2010 article on Banks’s genre-busting career:

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/reading-double-writing-double-the-fiction-of-iain-m-banks/

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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) was born #OTD, 22 May, at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh – a 🎂 🧵

Bridget Kendall on BBC Sounds explores the life & work of the doctor & literary superstar who changed #CrimeFiction forever

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#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #SherlockHolmes #SherlockHolmesDay

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p054419v

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(1920–2010) was born , 27 April – a 🎂 🧵

Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea.
Who says we cannot guide ourselves
through the boiling reefs, black as they are…

—Edwin Morgan, “At Eighty” – written for his own 80th birthday


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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/eighty-0/

scotlit, to sciencefiction
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James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, was born , 13 Feb. Author of SUNSET SONG – & many other titles from to – he is one of the most important writers of the

A 🎂🧵…

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https://digital.nls.uk/learning/sunset-song-quines/overview-of-the-novel/biography-of-lewis-grassic-gibbon/

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THAT PROMETHEAN SPARK
THE BOTTLE IMP – Muriel Spark Special Issue

“With a writing career that included biography, criticism, drama and short fiction as well as novels, Muriel Spark was never one to do things by halves…”

Muriel Spark was born , 1 Feb, 1918. A 🎂🧵 …

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Literature

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/issue-22/

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s #shortstory “The Bottle Imp” was first published (in English) #OTD, 8 Feb 1891, in the New York Herald. It was originally published in #Samoan translation as “O le Fagu Aitu” in the missionary magazine O le sulu Samoa (The Samoan Torch)

A 👿 🧵 …

#Scottish #literature #supernatural #RobertLouisStevenson

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scotlit, to literature
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x Don’t Make Me Tap The Sign (GSV, Plate class)

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Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born , 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing, & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN, has gained attention—but she was also an important novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quiet-pioneer-the-novels-of-nan-shepherd-1893-1981/

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“The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
—Pushkin

A birthday 🧵for Walter Scott. Born , 15 August, 1771, he was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature, of any era.

@litstudies


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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/issue-16/

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Lord Byron – “half a Scot by birth, and bred / a whole one” – died 200 years ago , 19 April 1824

This poem was written in a letter to Thomas Moore from Venice in 1817, when Byron was feeling particularly shagged out after Carnevale…

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43845/so-well-go-no-more-a-roving

scotlit, to literature
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INTERVIEWER: When somebody asks you to describe your book LANARK, what do you say to them?
ALASDAIR GRAY: I say it is a Scottish petit bourgeois model of the universe.
INTERVIEWER: Just like that?
ALASDAIR GRAY: Yes, I’ve rehearsed it and honed it down to as few words as possible.

From 25 Feb 2021 – the first ever #GrayDay, marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Alasdair Gray’s novel LANARK

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#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ_YoplsZxs

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George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008) – author, historian, journalist, screenwriter – was born , 2 April, 1925

“His dedication to strongly researched stories, built firmly on a bedrock of historical fact, but always with an eye to the humour of a situation, was the core of what appealed to me”

Historical novelist Michael Jecks discusses George MacDonald Fraser’s writing for the Royal Literary Fund:

https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/not-a-serious-writer/

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“The film is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by the Glaswegian Alasdair Gray. […] Like watching Lanthimos’s gorgeous spectacle, reading Gray is a wild & unsettling ride. His work is full of progressive imagination, wry impropriety & intricate literary form.”

Discover Alasdair Gray – the radical Scottish polymath & author of POOR THINGS

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https://theconversation.com/poor-things-meet-the-radical-scottish-visionary-behind-the-new-hit-film-220080

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A 🎂 🧵for John Galt (1779–1839), born , 2 May. His novels & short stories are sharp political satires & fascinating chronicles of Scottish life.

Read our INTERNATIONAL COMPANION, ed Gerard Carruthers & Colin Kidd – also available online via Project MUSE


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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/companions/ic5/

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I never felt so much
Since I have felt at all
The tingling smell and touch
Of dogrose and sweet briar,
Nettles against the wall,
All sours and sweets that grow
Together or apart
In hedge or marsh or ditch…

—“A Birthday”, by Edwin Muir (1887–1959)—born , 15 May 1887

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Robert Louis Stevenson died , 3 December, 1894. He is buried on Mt Vaea, on the island of Upolu in 🇼🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📷Thomas Andrew (1855–1939): Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson, 1894 / Le maliu o Tusitala i le tausaga 1894


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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burial_and_grave_of_Robert_Louis_Stevenson_in_Samoa,_1894.jpg

scotlit, to history
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Elspeth Barker (1940–2022) was born , 16 November

Maggie O’Farrell called Barker’s classic O CALEDONIA

“one of those books you proselytize about; you want to beckon others aboard its glorious train. … I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O CALEDONIA as her favourite book”

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https://lithub.com/maggie-ofarrell-on-elspeth-barkers-modern-scottish-classic-o-caledonia/

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George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born , 10 Dec. Seen by many as the forefather of modern fiction, he was a huge influence on later writers including JRR &

“The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream”

David Melville Wingrove on LILITH, MacDonald’s last – & very strange – major work

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/beautiful-terrors-george-macdonald-and-lilith/

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The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray

“Novels narrated in the first-person or in the third- can have those choices rendered cinematically […]. But Gray used endnotes, illustrations, typography, plagiarism, self-reference, and the layout of the page to further his plots, to deepen his diegesis, and to make us laugh.”

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https://lithub.com/the-woefully-neglected-and-partially-unfilmable-creations-of-alasdair-gray/

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“Of aal the fish there iss in the sea,” said Para Handy, “nothing bates the herrin’; it’s a providence they’re plentiful and them so cheap!”

Neil Munro (1863–1930) – journalist, novelist, short-story writer, & poet – was born , 3 June. Rigby’s Encyclopaedia of Herring discusses Munro’s PARA HANDY stories, as well as giving the full text of the tale “The Herring – A Gossip”

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https://www.herripedia.com/para-handy/

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Edwin Morgan is one of Scotland’s foremost love poets. Here’s a short selection for ❤️ & 🏳️‍🌈

VALENTINE WEATHER
Edwin Morgan

Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
come on, let us sway together,
under the trees, and to hell with thunder.

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A short 🧵 of Scottish poetry for – 3 March 2024

1: Kathleen Jamie, “The Hinds”
Published in The Bonniest Companie, Picador 2015

scotlit, to Prague
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“Had a fit of the scunners: heart withered up.”
—Willa Muir (1890–1970) was born , 13 March. Her translations of solidified his reputation in English, & then internationally

In this article, Prof Michelle Woods looks at Willa Muir—a translator in

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/willa-muir-a-shetland-translator-in-prague/

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Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.

—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #poetry
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/

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