title: George Mackay Brown
text: # George Mackay Brown
  
  George Mackay Brown né le 17 octobre 1921 mort le 13 avril 1996 est un poète, romancier et dramaturge écossais.
  
  ## Biographie
  
  George Mackay Brown est le cadet d'une famille de six enfants. Il vit la plus grande partie de sa vie à Stromness dans les Orcades Il fait ses études à la Newbattle Abbey College et étudie la littérature à l'Université d'Édimbourg. Le 23 décembre 1961 il se convertit à la religion catholique et le jour suivant il fait sa communion solennelle.
  
  ## Œuvre
  
  ### Poésie
  
  * The Storm (1954)
  * Loaves and Fishes (1959)
  * The Year of the Whale (1965)
  * Fishermen with Ploughs (1971)
  * Poems New and Selected (1971)
  * Winterfold (1976)
  * Voyages (1983)
  * The Wreck of the Archangel (1989)
  * Tryst on Egilsay (1989)
  * Brodgar Poems (1992)
  * Foresterhill (1992)
  * Following a Lark (1996)
  * Water (1996)
  * Travellers: poems (2001)
  * Collected Poems (2005)
  
  ### Nouvelles
  
  * A Calendar of Love (1967)
  * A Time to Keep (1969)
  * Hawkfall (1974)
  * The Sun's Net (1976)
  * Andrina and Other Stories (1983)
  * The Masked Fisherman and Other Stories (1989)
  * The Sea-King's Daughter (1991)
  * Winter Tales (1995)
  * The Island of the Women and Other Stories (1998)
  
  ### Théâtre
  
  * A Spell for Green Corn (1970)
  * Three Plays: The Loom of Light, The Well and The Voyage of Saint Brandon (1984)
  
  ### Romans
  
  * Greenvoe (1972)
  * Magnus (1973)
  * Time in a Red Coat (1984)
  * The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories (1987) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
  * Vinland (1992)
  * Beside the Ocean of Time (1994) shortlisted for Booker Prize and judged Scottish Book of the Year by the Saltire Society
  
  ### Essais récits autobiographiques
  
  * An Orkney Tapestry (1969)
  * Letters from Hamnavoe (1975)
  * Under Brinkie's Brae (1979)
  * Portrait of Orkney (1981)
  * Rockpools and Daffodils: An Orcadian Diary, 1979-91 (1992)
  * For the Islands I Sing: An Autobiography (1997)
  * Stained Glass Windows (1998)
  * Northern Lights (1999) (Includes Poetry)
  * The First Wash of Spring (2006)
  
  ### Histoires pour enfants
  
  * The Two Fiddlers (1974)
  * Pictures in the Cave (1977)
  * Six Lives of Fankle the Cat (1980)
  