# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alasdair-gray
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:30:38.453Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alasdair-gray"
name: "Alasdair Gray"
slug: "alasdair-gray"
description: "Alasdair James Gray was a Scottish writer and artist. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards."
tagline: "Scottish writer and artist (1934–2019)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1934-12-28"
deathDate: "2019-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump