biography
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Brown, George Mackay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1921–96)
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| biography:
| Poet, novelist, and short-story writer, born in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK. He published his first collection of poems, The Storm (1954), while studying at Edinburgh University. He lived most of his life on Orkney, and his first collection of stories, A Calendar of Love (1967), is about the lives of Orkney farmers and fishermen. His second collection of stories, A Time to Keep (1969), won the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Prize. In 1988 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and a novel Beside the Ocean of Time was nominated for the 1994 Booker Prize. His Selected Poems were published in 1991. |
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