Overview
Granite Noir: Scottish Literature- A Criminal Practice?
Alan Riach and Lin Anderson dive the depths of Tartan Noir. Where it started, where it’s been and where it’s going. From Stevenson and Hogg, through Tey and Laidlaw to the giants of the genre today, some of them with us here at Granite Noir. Join us for a riveting and fun conversation featuring some of Scotland’s favourite authors and their books.
This session will be chaired by Peggy Hughes.
This event will be live streamed and can be viewed online.
Price
£9.50
About the Speakers
Alan Riach
Alan Riach (b.1957) Poet and Professor of Scottish Literature, Glasgow University. Born Airdrie, Lanarkshire, studied at Cambridge and Glasgow, worked at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, 1986-2000, returned to Scotland 2001. Books include poetry: The Winter Book (2017), Homecoming (2009) and Wild Blue: Selected Poems (2014); criticism: Representing Scotland (2005), Hugh MacDiarmid’s Epic Poetry (1991), and co-authored with Alexander Moffat, Arts of Resistance: Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland (2008), described in the TLS as ‘a landmark book’. His 734-page Scottish Literature: An Introduction was published in 2022 and described in The Times as ‘magisterial’.
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