Alasdair Gray – Canongate Books

Ali Smith’s (2nd) pick for her Goldsmiths Prize fantasy winner: ‘Gray’s books have transformed the possibilities of the novel, and 1982, Janine, a book about a man in a room for one night up against the question of whether to live or not is one of his most powerful, a perfecting of his combination of anarchy, politeness and lyricism, his philosophical understanding of the epic quotidian and his good-natured existentialism. It remakes the novel – and it’s never going to not be a really unputdownable read.’

@goldsmithsprize • 30 Jul 2019

“My problem is sex, or if it isn’t, sex hides the problem so completely that I don’t know what it is. I want revenge on a woman who is not real”

1982, Janine

Alasdair Gray

Alasdair Gray interviewed by the BBC in 2007 on his introduction to art and books.

“I was learning that I could have what I wanted if it was in words, pictures or songs, which are the only dependable forms of magic.”

A Life In Pictures

Alasdair Gray

The trailer for A Life in Progress: a feature length documentary on Alasdair Gray, filmed over the course of fifteen years.