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Gray
Day
2022
Live
Òran Mór
Glasgow
25 February
7.30pm

Who is Alasdair Gray?

Alasdair Gray (1934–2019) was a writer and artist. His books include Lanark (widely regarded as a masterpiece of Scottish fiction), Poor Things, Unlikely Stories, Mostly, 1982, Janine and his Englishing of Dante’s Divine Trilogy. As well as designing and illustrating his own books, his art included murals, paintings, prints and more.
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What is Gray Day?

Gray Day is the 25th February, an annual day-long celebration of Alasdair Gray’s life and work. (Download an Alasdair Gray avatar for Gray Day here.)
  The first Gray Day was held in 2021 on the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lanark, and included a Gray Day Broadcast. The second Gray Day, this 25th February 2022, will be celebrated with a live event at the Òran Mór, Glasgow, featuring Liz Lochead, Hollie McNish, Val McDermid, live music and more, which will be livestreamed for free online here.
‘A twentieth century William Blake’
Observer
‘Everyone must read Alasdair Gray’
Guardian
‘Ushered in a literary renaissance’
The Times
‘One of the very greatest writers of the last fifty years’
Jonathan Coe
‘A necessary genius’
Ali Smith

A selected Gray Bibliography

Novels

  • Lanark
  • 1982, Janine
  • The Fall of Kelvin Walker
  • McGrotty and Ludmilla
  • Poor Things
  • A History Maker
  • Old Men in Love

Short Story Collections

  • Unlikely Stories, Mostly
  • The Ends of Our Tethers
  • Every Short Story 1951–2012

Non-Fiction & Others

  • A Life in Pictures
  • Of Me & Others
  • A Gray Play Book
  • McGrotty and Ludmilla
  • Gray’s Englishing of Dante’s Divine trilogy: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
Lanark by Alasdair Gray
1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray
Poor Things by Alasdair Gray
Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray
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Denise Mina holding a copy of Lanark below the Alasdair Gray mural in the Òran Mór, during filming for the first Gray Day. Photo by Kat Gollock.

Denise Mina holding a copy of Lanark below the Alasdair Gray mural in the Òran Mór, during filming for the first Gray Day. Photo by Kat Gollock.

A detail from Alasdair Gray’s Òran Mór mural: “Where are we going? Our seed returns to Death’s republic”. Photo by Kat Gollock.

A detail from Alasdair Gray’s Òran Mór mural: “Where are we going? Our seed returns to Death’s republic”. Photo by Kat Gollock.

A detail from Alasdair Gray’s Òran Mór mural: “Better nation for everyone”. Photo by Kat Gollock.

A detail from Alasdair Gray’s Òran Mór mural: “Better nation for everyone”. Photo by Kat Gollock.

A detail from Alasdair Gray’s Òran Mór mural: “When true to each other we are as real as stars”. Photo by Kat Gollock.

A detail from Alasdair Gray’s Òran Mór mural: “When true to each other we are as real as stars”. Photo by Kat Gollock.

An image of the Alasdair Gray mural on the ceiling of the Òran Mór. Photo by Kat Gollock.

An image of the Alasdair Gray mural on the ceiling of the Òran Mór. Photo by Kat Gollock.

Gavin Mitchell reads from Lanark during filming of the Gray Day Broadcast. Photo by Kat Gollock.

Gavin Mitchell reads from Lanark during filming of the Gray Day Broadcast. Photo by Kat Gollock.

Alasdair Gray self-portrait

Alasdair Gray in Other Places

Archivists & Publishers

Galleries And the like

Assorted others

Gray Day 25 February