Iain Crichton Smith
Iain Crichton Smith, (
Gaelic: ''Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn''; 1 January 1928 – 15 October 1998) was a
Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic. He was born in
Glasgow, but moved to the
Isle of Lewis at the age of two, where he and his two brothers were brought up by their widowed mother in the small crofting town of
Bayble, which also produced
Derick Thomson. Educated at the
University of Aberdeen, Crichton Smith took a degree in English, and after completing his
national service in the
Army Educational Corps, went on to become a teacher. He taught in
Clydebank,
Dumbarton and
Oban from 1952, retiring to become a full-time writer in 1977, although he already had many novels and poems published.
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