Andrew Greig

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Andrew Greig (born 23 September 1951) is a Scottish writer. He was born in Bannockburn, near Stirling,Rush, Christopher, "Elephants in Anstruther: In Search of the Scottish Identity", in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 31, August 1983, pp. 43 - 48, {{issn|0140-0894}} and grew up in Anstruther, Fife. He studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and is a former Glasgow University Writing Fellow and Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}. He lives in Orkney and Edinburgh and is married to author Lesley Glaister.{{cite web |url=http://www.umbrella2005.org.uk/speakers/LesleyGlaister.html |title=Lesley Glaister |website=www.umbrella2005.org.uk |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051026225603/http://www.umbrella2005.org.uk/speakers/LesleyGlaister.html |archive-date=26 October 2005 |url-status=dead}}

Awards

He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1972.{{cite web|url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/eric-gregory-past-winners|title=Eric Gregory Past Winners|publisher=Society of Authors|accessdate=2011-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327205725/http://societyofauthors.org/eric-gregory-past-winners|archive-date=27 March 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} In 1985, Greig published an account of the successful ascent of the Muztagh Tower in the Himalayas. Summit Fever: The Story of an Armchair Climber was shortlisted for the 1996 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.{{cite web|url=http://www.boardmantasker.com/site/other_years.htm#1996|title=Winning books, shortlisted books and other entries|publisher=Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature|accessdate=2011-04-23|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516112607/http://www.boardmantasker.com/site/other_years.htm#1996|archivedate=16 May 2011|url-status=dead}}

His first novel, Electric Brae: A Modern Romance (1992), was shortlisted for the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year.{{cite web|url=http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/navigate.do?pPageID=200000600|title=Andrew Greig|publisher=Waterstone's|accessdate=2011-04-23}} His next novel, The Return of John MacNab (1996) was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award. His fifth novel, In Another Light (2004), won the 2004 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.booksfromscotland.com/Books/Award-Winning-Scottish-Books/Saltire-Society-Literary-Awards|title=Saltire Society Literary Awards - Winning Books|publisher=BooksFromScotland.com|accessdate=2011-04-23}} Fair Helen was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize (2014).{{cite web|url=http://www.bordersbookfestival.org/walter-scott-prize/item/256-walter-scott-prize-2014-short-list |title=Walter Scott Prize Shortlist 2014 |publisher=Walter Scott Prize |date=4 April 2014 |accessdate=27 May 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415074007/http://www.bordersbookfestival.org/walter-scott-prize/item/256-walter-scott-prize-2014-short-list |archivedate=15 April 2014 }}

Published work

=Poetry=

White Boats (with Catherine Czerkawska) (1973)
Men On Ice (Canongate 1977)
Surviving Passages (Canongate 1982)
A Flame in your Heart (with Kathleen Jamie) (Bloodaxe 1987)
The Order of the Day (Bloodaxe 1989)
Western Swing (Bloodaxe c. 1993)
Into You (Bloodaxe 2000)
This Life, This Life (new and Selected Poems) (Bloodaxe 2006)
Getting Higher: The Complete Mountain Poems (Birlinn 2011)

=Climbing=

Men on Ice (1977)
Summit Fever: The Story of an Armchair Climber (1985)
Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge (1986)
The Order of the Day (1990)

=Non-Fiction=

Preferred Lies: A Journey to the Heart of Scottish Golf (2006)
At the Loch of the Green Corrie (2010)

=Fiction=

Electric Brae: A Modern Romance (1992)
The Return of John MacNab (1996)
When They Lay Bare (1999)
That Summer (2000) (published as The Clouds Above : A Novel of Love and War in some markets)
In Another Light (2004)
Romanno Bridge (2008)
Fair Helen (2013)
Rose Nicolson (2021)

=Articles=

A White Elephant in Anstruther, in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 32, November 1983, {{issn|0140-0894}}

References

External links

[http://www.andrew-greig.weebly.com Andrew Greig's website]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061017035823/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02D9L380712627427 BAC entry]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110309013818/http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/blog/interview-andrew-greig/ Interview with Andrew Greig (2 Dec 2010)]