Stone of Destiny, which Scottish kings had been crowned, returned to Scotland
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George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character. He is widely regarded as one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.
Selected works
Poetry collections
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)
Short story collections
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)
Simple Fire (2021)
Plays
A Spell for Green Corn (1970)
Three Plays: The Loom of Light, The Well and The Voyage of Saint Brandon (1984)
Novels
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
Essays collections and autobiography
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)