{"product_id":"christmas-stories-9781912916344","title":"Christmas Stories","description":"George Mackay Brown was born in Stromness, Orkney, on 17 October 1921. He died there in 1996. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis many awards include a Society of Authors Travel Award, 1968; SAC Literature Prize, 1969; Katherine Mansfield Menton Short Story Prize, 1971; Hon. LLD from Dundee University, 1977; OBE, 1974; James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1987 (for The Golden Bird). He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1994 for his novel Beside the Ocean of Time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe grew up in fairly straitened circumstances as his father was unable to work through illness. Mackay Brown himself suffered from tuberculosis as a young man. In his twenties he worked as a journalist on the Orkney Herald, but at the age of 30 he left Orkney to study at Newbattle Abbey College, near Edinburgh, where he met Edwin Muir, who was Warden at the time, a meeting that had a profound influence on him. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe left behind him an extraordinary body of work: novels, short stories, poetry, journalism and even two operatic collaborations with Peter Maxwell Davis. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristmas Stories gathers together some of the Winter and Christmas stories and that he either published separately in newspapers, included in limited edition book printings, or published in Winter Tales. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis first book of poems \"The Storm\" is also published by Galileo, with an introduction by Kathleen Jamie.","brand":"George Mackay Brown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51322396967254,"sku":"9781912916344","price":18.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781912916344.jpg?v=1757938210","url":"https:\/\/www.bookshop.lv\/ru\/products\/christmas-stories-9781912916344","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}