Cameron, Lucinda (29 December 2019). "Tributes to 'master of creativity' Alasdair Gray". Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 7 January 2020. In 2014 Gray's autobiography Of Me & Others was released, [90] and Kevin Cameron made a feature-length film Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress, including interviews with Liz Lochhead and Gray's sister, Mora Rolley. [91] [92] [93] Their efforts to hold to a life of imagination or adventure, while bound to the necessities of raising a family in an imposing industrial city, infused Gray’s own artistic vision and political instinct. He was a lifelong socialist and Scottish nationalist, who lived in the city of his birth all his life, save for a four-year spell during the second world war, when the family moved to Yorkshire. Coe, Jonathan (8 October 1992). "Gray's Elegy". London Review of Books. 14 (19) . Retrieved 7 January 2020. Böhnke, Dietmar (2004). Shades of Gray: science fiction, history and the problem of postmodernism in the work of Alasdair Gray. Galda & Wilch. p.102. ISBN 9783931397548.

a b c d e Cameron, Lucinda (29 December 2019). "Alasdair Gray's creative talents spanned the arts". Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 6 January 2020. Around 2000, Gray had to apply to the Scottish Artists' Benevolent Association for financial support, as he was struggling to survive on the income from his book sales. [4] In 2001 Gray, Kelman and Leonard became joint professors of the Creative Writing programme at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. [35] [56] [57] Gray stood down from the post in 2003, having disagreed with other staff about the direction the programme should take. [58] As far as spiritual theories of the world go this is relatively plausible. Little wonder then that its principle tropes - Light and Freedom - appear periodically in European literature. Lanark is an example. Its characters are obsessed with light, either finding it or avoiding it. Lanark‘s goal is to escape from the realm of artificial light into that of pure ‘heavenly’ light. Macwhirter, Iain (2014). Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland. Glasgow: Cargo Publishing. ISBN 978-1-908885-27-2. What's worth saying, these decades on, is that Lanark , in common with all great books, is still, and always will be, an act of resistance. It is part of the system of whispers and sedition and direct communion, one voice to another, we call literature. Its bravery in finding voice, in encouraging the enormous power of public, national, artistic, sexual and political imagination, is not something to take for granted.

Glass, Rodge (2012). Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4088-3335-3.

I wanted very much to love this book, which was probably my first mistake. I had heard a lot of extremely complimentary things about how it was the most unusual, eccentric and meaningful novel various people had read for ages, and I probably came to it with rather exaggerated hopes. Anyway, it's good, but it's also flawed, as to be fair the author himself admits in a rather interesting confessional Epilogue.farklı ve eğlenceli bir okuma deneyimi için harika bir kitap. Okura birçok farklı duyguyu bir arada sunabilen zekice bir kitap. Bu özet uzar gider! His writing style is postmodern and has been compared with those of Franz Kafka, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. It often contains extensive footnotes explaining the works that influenced it. His books inspired many younger Scottish writers, including Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, A.L. Kennedy, Janice Galloway, Chris Kelso and Iain Banks. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Glasgow from 1977 to 1979, and professor of Creative Writing at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities from 2001 to 2003. Williamson, Kevin (2009). "Language and culture in a rediscovered Scotland" (PDF). In Perryman, Mark (ed.). Breaking up Britain: Four Nations after a Union. London: Lawrence & Wishart. pp.53–67. ISBN 978-1-905007-96-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 February 2011.

Why Scots Should Rule Scotland (1992; revised 1997), ISBN 978-0-86241-671-3, How We Should Rule Ourselves (2005, with Adam Tomkins), ISBN 978-1-84195-722-7 and Independence: An Argument for Home Rule (2014) ISBN 978-1-78211-169-6.Gray’s publisher Canongate announced the news on Sunday, saying he died early in the morning after being hospitalised for a short illness in his home city of Glasgow. In a statement, Gray’s family thanked his friends and hospital staff, calling him “an extraordinary person; very talented and, even more importantly, very humane”. In 2023, Glasgow Museums acquired Grey's 1964 mural Cowcaddens Streetscape in the Fifties, which the artist described as "my best big oil painting", for display at the Kelvingrove Gallery. [33]