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A list of Scottish poets in English, Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots, Latin, French, Old Welsh and other languages. This lists includes people living in what is now Scotland before it became so. This lists includes people living in what is now Scotland before it became so.
This list of Scottish writers is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish writers who have a Wikipedia page. Those on the list were born and/or brought up in Scotland. They include writers of all genres, writing in English, Lowland Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Latin, French or any other language. Please help by adding new names, using the present ...
Major figures included Rob Donn Mackay, Donnchadh Bàn Mac an t-Saoir, Uillean Ross and Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, who helped inspire a new form of nature poetry. James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation, claiming to have found poetry written by Ossian. Robert Burns is widely regarded as the ...
Scottish poets (17 C, 205 P) R. Scottish radio writers (14 P) ... Pages in category "Scottish writers" The following 157 pages are in this category, out of 157 total.
Members of the movement were followed by a new generation of post-war poets including Edwin Morgan, who would be appointed the first Scots Makar by the inaugural Scottish government in 2004. From the 1980s Scottish literature enjoyed another major revival, particularly associated with writers including James Kelman and Irvine Welsh .
The most famous clash was at the 1962 Edinburgh Writers Festival, where Hugh MacDiarmid denounced Alexander Trocchi, a younger Scottish writer, as "cosmopolitan scum", and Trocchi claimed "sodomy" as a basis for his own writing. This is often seen as a clash of the generations, although it is rarely reported that the two writers corresponded ...
M. Iain Eairdsidh MacAsgaill; George MacBeth; Norman MacCaig; Hugh MacDiarmid; Allan MacDonald (poet) Murdo Macfarlane; James Pittendrigh Macgillivray; Alasdair Alpin MacGregor
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Scottish male writers and Category:20th-century Scottish women writers The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.