Neil M. Gunn | |
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| Born | Neil Miller Gunn 8 November 1891 Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland |
| Died | 15 January 1973 (aged 81) |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Genre | general fiction |
| Subject | Scottish Highlands |
| Literary movement | 20th century Scottish Renaissance |
| Notable works | The Silver Darlings (1941) |
| Notable awards | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction |
| Spouse | Jessie Dallas Frew (m. 1921– |
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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 the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the 20th century (with the possible exception of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell).[1]: 326, 333, 339
Like his contemporary, Hugh MacDiarmid, Gunn was politically committed to the ideals of both Scottish nationalism and socialism (a difficult balance to maintain for a writer of his time). His fiction deals primarily with the Highland communities and landscapes of his youth,[1]: 325 though the author chose (contra MacDiarmid and his followers) to write almost exclusively in English rather than Scots or Gaelic but was heavily influenced in his writing style by the language.[2][3]
- ^ a b Wittig, Kurt (1978) [1958]. The Scottish Tradition in Literature. The Mercat Press.
- ^ "BBC Two – Writing Scotland – Neil M Gunn". BBC. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
- ^ "Neil M. Gunn profile". Birlinn.co.uk. Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2015.