George mackay brown, poet and novelist, died.

April 13th, 1996

    George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.

    Selected works

    Poetry collections

    • The Storm (1954)
    • Loaves and Fishes (1959)
    • The Year of the Whale (1965)
    • Fishermen with Ploughs (1971)
    • Poems New and Selected (1971)
    • Winterfold (1976)
    • Voyages (1983)
    • The Wreck of the Archangel (1989)
    • Tryst on Egilsay (1989)
    • Brodgar Poems (1992)
    • Foresterhill (1992)
    • Following a Lark (1996)
    • Water (1996)
    • Travellers: poems (2001)
    • Collected Poems (2005)

    Short story collections

    • A Calendar of Love (1967)
    • A Time to Keep (1969)
    • Hawkfall (1974)
    • The Sun’s Net (1976)
    • Andrina and Other Stories (1983)
    • The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories (1989)
    • The Sea-King’s Daughter (1991)
    • Winter Tales (1995)
    • The Island of the Women and Other Stories (1998)
    • Simple Fire (2021)

    Plays

    • A Spell for Green Corn (1970)
    • Three Plays: The Loom of Light, The Well and The Voyage of Saint Brandon (1984)

    Novels

    • Greenvoe (1972)
    • Magnus (1973)
    • Time in a Red Coat (1984)
    • The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories (1987) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
    • Vinland (1992)
    • Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) shortlisted for Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society

    Essays collections and autobiography

    • An Orkney Tapestry (1969)
    • Letters from Hamnavoe (1975)
    • Under Brinkie’s Brae (1979)
    • Portrait of Orkney (1981)
    • Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary, 1979–91 (1992)
    • For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography (1997)
    • Stained Glass Windows (1998)
    • Northern Lights (1999) (Includes Poetry)
    • The First Wash of Spring (2006)

    Children’s story collection

    • The Two Fiddlers (1974)
    • Pictures in the Cave (1977)
    • Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980)

    Discography

    • For the Islands I Sing