• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Gunn, actor Neil M. Gunn, Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist Nathan Gunn, opera baritone Richard Gunn (boxer), boxer Ronald Campbell Gunn, botanist...
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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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    Butcher's Broom is an epic, historical novel by Neil M. Gunn written in 1934. Based on a semi-fictionalised account of the Highland Clearances in Sutherland...
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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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  • 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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    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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    "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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    aa sorts foregether / in Embro to the ploy" "Embro to the Ploy" 1977 Neil M. Gunn English "Knowledge is high in the head... but the salmon of wisdom swims...
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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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  • 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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  • Back: Essays and Short Stories, a 1991 collection of compiled works from Neil M. Gunn edited by Margery Palmer McCulloch "The Man Who Came Back", The Lone...
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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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    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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  • it included articles by Alfred Perles, Henry Miller, Robert Simpson, Neil M. Gunn, Rayner Heppenstall and George Orwell, as well as poems by Lawrence Durrell...
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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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  • literature and writers, her published works including: The Novels of Neil M. Gunn: a critical study (Scottish Academic Press, 1987) Edwin Muir: poet, critic...
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  • Year Work Author Ref(s) 1937 Highland River Neil M. Gunn The Lord Bothwell Robert Gore-Browne 1939 Three Plays Robert McLellan 1956 One Foot in Eden Edwin...
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