WRITER

Alasdair Gray

1934 - 2019

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Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alasdair Gray has received more than 934,467 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Alasdair Gray is the 1,579th most popular writer (up from 5,438th in 2019), the 1,220th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,474th in 2019) and the 140th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 930k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Lanark
Fiction
1982
Ten tales tall & true
1993
The Ends of Our Tethers
Social life and customs, Fiction
2003
The fall of Kelvin Walker
Nineteen sixties, Fiction
1985
Poor things
Fiction, Physicians
A fantasy novel, presented as a discovered a manuscript, set in the nineteenth century. Frankenstein-like tale. Whitbread Novel Award, 1992.
1992

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alasdair Gray ranks 1,579 out of 7,302. Before her are Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Ahmad ibn Mājid, Alistair MacLean, Eino Leino, Ruth Rendell, and Jean Chapelain. After her are Dean Koontz, Langston Hughes, Alexander Polyhistor, Giorgio Bassani, Mór Jókai, and Lydia Koidula.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Alasdair Gray ranks 102. Before her are Miguel de la Madrid, Clive Granger, Victor French, Mohamed Ennaceur, Valery Bykovsky, and Khun Sa. After her are Cláudio Hummes, Masao Uchino, Lucien Bianchi, Jean Sorel, Garry Marshall, and Fredric Jameson. Among people deceased in 2019, Alasdair Gray ranks 95. Before her are Köbi Kuhn, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Valery Bykovsky, Valentina Cortese, Rafi Eitan, and Mirjana Marković. After her are Robert Frank, Dušan Makavejev, Ginger Baker, Jessye Norman, Antoine Gizenga, and Georgiy Daneliya.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alasdair Gray ranks 1,220 out of 8,785. Before her are Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), Alistair MacLean (1922), Ruth Rendell (1930), Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (1480), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), and David Thewlis (1963). After her are Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Black (1962), Stephen Hales (1677), Dave Evans (1953), Jimmy Savile (1926), and James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alasdair Gray ranks 140. Before her are John Gay (1685), Michael Moorcock (1939), Hugh Lofting (1886), Sister Nivedita (1867), Alistair MacLean (1922), and Ruth Rendell (1930). After her are Robert Faurisson (1929), A. S. Byatt (1936), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Joseph Needham (1900), Walafrid Strabo (808), and Edward Lear (1812).

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