He popularised the epigram "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation" (taken from a poem by Canadian poet Dennis Leigh) which was engraved in the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh when it opened in 2004. Gray was a civic nationalist and a republican, and wrote supporting socialism and Scottish independence. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Glasgow from 1977 to 1979, and professor of Creative Writing at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities from 2001 to 2003. Kennedy, Janice Galloway Chris Kelso and Iain Banks. His books inspired many younger Scottish writers, including Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A. It often contains extensive footnotes explaining the works that influenced it.
His writing style is postmodern and has been compared with those of Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Before Lanark, he had plays performed on radio and TV. His artwork has been widely exhibited and is in several important collections. As well as his book illustrations, he painted portraits and murals, including one at the Òran Mór venue and one at Hillhead subway station. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1952 to 1957. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist.
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