Andrew Greig

For the Scottish rugby union player, see Andrew Greig (rugby union). For the Scottish goalkeeper, see Andy Greig.

Andrew Greig (born 23 September 1951) is a Scottish writer. He was born in Bannockburn, near Stirling,^[1] and grew up in Anstruther, Fife. He studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and is a former Glasgow University Writing Fellow and Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow^{[citation needed]}. He lives in Orkney and Edinburgh and is married to author Lesley Glaister.^[2]

Awards

He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1972.^[3] In 1985, Greig published an account of the successful ascent of the Muztagh Tower in the Himalayas. Summit Fever: The Story of an Armchair Climber was shortlisted for the 1996 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.^[4]

His first novel, Electric Brae: A Modern Romance (1992), was shortlisted for the McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year.^[5] His next novel, The Return of John MacNab (1996) was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award.^[5] His fifth novel, In Another Light (2004), won the 2004 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award.^[6] Fair Helen was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize (2014).^[7]

Published work

Poetry

• White Boats (with Catherine Czerkawska) (1973)
• Men On Ice (Canongate 1977)
• Surviving Passages (Canongate 1982)
• A Flame in your Heart (with Kathleen Jamie) (Bloodaxe 1987)
• The Order of the Day (Bloodaxe 1989)
• Western Swing (Bloodaxe c. 1993)
• Into You (Bloodaxe 2000)
• This Life, This Life (new and Selected Poems) (Bloodaxe 2006)
• Getting Higher: The Complete Mountain Poems (Birlinn 2011)

Climbing

• Men on Ice (1977)
• Summit Fever: The Story of an Armchair Climber (1985)
• Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge (1986)
• The Order of the Day (1990)

Non-Fiction

• Preferred Lies: A Journey to the Heart of Scottish Golf (2006)
• At the Loch of the Green Corrie (2010)

Fiction

• Electric Brae: A Modern Romance (1992)
• The Return of John MacNab (1996)
• When They Lay Bare (1999)
• That Summer (2000) (published as The Clouds Above : A Novel of Love and War in some markets)
• In Another Light (2004)
• Romanno Bridge (2008)
• Fair Helen (2013)
• Rose Nicolson (2021)

Articles

• A White Elephant in Anstruther, in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment 32, November 1983, ISSN 0140-0894