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Neil M. Gunn | |
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Born | Neil Miller Gunn 8 November 1891 Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland |
Dee'd | 15 Januar 1973 | (aged 81)
Thrift | Novelist |
Naitionality | Scots |
Ceetizenship | Breetish |
Genre | general feection |
Subject | Scots hielands |
Leeterar muivement | 20t century Scots Renaissance |
Notable warks | The Silver Darlings (1941) |
Notable awairds | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for feection |
Spoose | Jessie Dallas Frew (m. 1921- |
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Neil Miller Gunn (8 November 1891 – 15 Januar 1973) wis a proleefic novelist, creetic, an dramatist wha emerged as yin o the leadin lights o the Scots renaissance o the 1920s an 1930s. Wi ower twenty novels tae his credit, Gunn wis arguably the maist influential Scots fiction writer o the foremaist hauf o the 20th century (wi the possible exception o Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the pen name o James Leslie Mitchell).[1]
Like his contemporary Hugh Macdiarmid, Gunn wis politically commitit tae the ideals o baith Scots Nationalism an Socialism. His fiction deals primarily wi the hielan communities, an landscapes o its fowk,[1] though the author chose (unlike Macdiarmid an his followers) tae write almaist exclusively in Inglis ower than Scots or Gaelic bit wis heavily influenced in his writing style by the language.[2][3]
Gunn hud echt siblings, an whin his primary schooling wis completed in 1904, he moved sooth tae bide wi' his older sister Mary an her husband, the local doctor in St John's Toun o Dalry.[4][5] He continued his education thare wi tutors, the local schoolmaster an the writer an bard J.G. Carter "Theodore Mayne". He sat the civil service in 1907. This led tae a shift tae Lunnon.[6]