Neil Miller Gunn (8 November 1891 – 15 January 1973) was a prolific Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of...
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radio host Moses Gunn, actor Neil M. Gunn, Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist Nathan Gunn, opera baritone Rachael Gunn (born 1987), Australian breakdancer...
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1947 British film about Scottish fishermen, based on a 1941 novel by Neil M. Gunn. The film is set in the early 19th century, after the Highland Clearances...
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Highland River is a novel by Neil M. Gunn. Its plot revolves around a young boy called Kenn who grows up next to the Dunbeath river, then going on to experience...
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dystopian novel by Neil M. Gunn. Whilst the book features two protagonists from his previous novel, Young Art and Old Hector, Gunn transports the characters...
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Young Art and Old Hector is a novel by Neil M. Gunn. It concerns itself with an 8-year-old boy "Young Art" growing up in the Scottish Highland community...
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Butcher's Broom is an epic, historical novel by Neil M. Gunn written and published in 1934, and re-titled Highland Night for its first American printing...
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remained a friend and a supporter of other Scottish writers, including Neil M. Gunn, Marion Angus and Jessie Kesson. Nan Shepherd died shortly after her...
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the novelist of the inter-war years Neil M. Gunn and his engagement with the tragic. Price's introduction to Gunn's work, The Fabulous Matter of Fact,...
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Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973), author of Highland River and others, many of whose novels are set in Dunbeath and its Strath. Of Dunbeath's landscape, Gunn...
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List of literary initials (section M)
Keita Jemisin N. M. Kelby – Nicole Mary Kelby Naomi E. S. Griffiths – Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths Neil M. Gunn – Neil Miller Gunn O. E. Rølvaag –...
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Cencrastus No. 9, Summer 1982, pp. 26 – 30, ISSN 0264-0856 Douglas Gifford, Neil M. Gunn & Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1983) Scott Lyall,...
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"Old Mortality" J B Pick, 1921–2015, author, friend and biographer of Neil M Gunn. Professor Ted Cowan, FRSE, 1944–2022, formerly Professor of Scottish...
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of the clearances were evoked in fictional works by authors including Neil M. Gunn and Fionn MacColla in the 1930s and 1940s. The subject was largely ignored...
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Verner under the pseudonym Donald Stuart The Shadow, a 1948 novel by Neil M. Gunn Shadows, a 1951 novel by Winifred Duke Shadows, a 1970 novel by Victor...
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Silver Bough is also the title of a 1948 novel by Scottish novelist Neil M. Gunn. He references frequently the Silver Bough song sung by the protagonist's...
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and author, and in his youth was one of Gavin Maxwell's otter keepers. Neil M. Gunn, novelist, spent holidays with his sister Mary and her husband Dr Keillor...
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adaptation of the novel by Neil M. Gunn 2014 3000 Trees Willie MacKay Grey Coast Productions Libby McArthur play by George Gunn 5 - 26 April 2016 Neither...
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List of non-fiction writers (section M)
H/Lw) Arthur Guirdham (1905–1992, England, M/R) Nataliya Gumenyuk (born 1983, Ukraine, J) Neil M. Gunn (1891–1973, Scotland, T) Asriel Günzig (1868–1931...
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Agency Literary Award for July's People (1981) Scottish Arts Council Neil M. Gunn Fellowship (1981) Modern Language Association Honorary Fellow (1984)...
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Tait Black earlier in their careers: William Golding, Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee each collected the James Tait Black for fiction, whilst Doris Lessing...
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also published at least one short story and a book review of a novel by Neil M. Gunn in Wales magazine. In the early 1950s, Buckmaster published her only...
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Family From One End Street James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Neil M. Gunn, Highland River James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Lord Eustace...
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Parish; or, the Chronicles of Dalmailing; during the ministry of the Rev. M. Balwhidder. Written by himself. Arranged and edited by the author of 'the...
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Sir Walter Scott, J. M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson and the poet Robert Burns. More recently Hugh MacDiarmid and Neil M. Gunn contributed to the Scottish...
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Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (/ˈɡeɪmən/; born Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic...
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Iraqi writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Colombian novelist January 15 – Neil M. Gunn, Scottish novelist, dramatist and critic (born 1891) February 22 Elizabeth...
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and model Frances Hardinge, young adult fiction writer 15 January – Neil M. Gunn, Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist (born 1891) 19 January – Max...
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immersion in the changing seasons. Encounters with Nan Shepherd and then Neil M. Gunn opened opportunities in writing, including plays for the BBC in Aberdeen...
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Lindsay and the Sublime, in Cencrastus No. 2, Spring 1980, pp. 15 – 17 Neil M. Gunn: selected letters (editor), Edinburgh, Polygon, 1987 The Great Shadow...
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