Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author)
Dates
- Existence: 1928-1996. - 1996
Biography
Iain Crichton Smith was born in Glasgow, but his parents were both from the Isle of Lewis and the family moved back there in 1930.
Crichton Smith was educated at the Nicholson Institute (Stornoway) and the University of Aberdeen. He was a teacher by profession and taught at schools in Clydebank, Dumbarton and Oban until he retired in 1977 to pursue his writing career. Prolific, both in his native Gaelic and in English, he favoured exploring themes of island culture and religion. Though first and foremost a poet, he also produced novels, short stories, plays and criticism.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
'An t-adhar Ameireaganach, is sgeulachdan eile' (Inverness 1973), by Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn., 1973.
Editorial correspondence concerning Donald Sinclair and Iain Crichton Smith for 'An tuil: anthology of 20th century Scottish Gaelic verse' (Polygon: Edinburgh, 1999) by Ronald Black., 1996-1999.
Includes scripts of two unpublished Gaelic novels of the Rev Ewen MacLean, Edinburgh, and photocopies of 'Leabhar nam Prannag', manuscript poems of Ian Paterson.
Iain Crichton Smith, translations from Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir', ca. 1970
Verse translations by Iain Crichton Smith of a selection of poems of Sorley MacLean's 'Dain do Eimhir' (I-IV, VIII, XIV, XVII-XXIV, XXVII-XXXV, XXXVII, XLII-XLIII, XLV, XLVIII-L, LII, LIV-LV, LVII (3 versions). Iain Crichton Smith's translations were published in 1971.
Letters of Iain Crichton Smith to David Morrison., 1968, undated.
Correspondents include George Mackay Brown, Christopher Murray Grieve, Alexander Scott, and Sydney Goodsir Smith, on literary and personal matters.
Letters to Ian Rankin of correspondents with surnames and corporate names beginning S-Y, and of unidentified correspondents., 1978-2018, undated.
'Maighstirean is ministearan' (Inverness, 1970), by Iain Mac a' Ghobhainn., 1970.
'The village' (Inverness, 1976), by Iain Crichton Smith., 1976.
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