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Alasdair Gray is a Scottish author and artist. His most recent book is the critically acclaimed anthology, The Book of Prefaces, published in 2000. His work has won several awards, including the Whitbread Prize and the Guardian Fiction prize for his novel Poor Things.

Born in 1934, Gray studied at the Glasgow Art School and has taught art part-time. During the 1970s he was Writer in Residence at the University of Glasgow. As well as novels he has written many short stories, plays and non-fiction.