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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Acair

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781789071252

RRP: £10.95

PAGES: 160

PUBLICATION DATE:
November 17, 2022

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Crann-fìge / Fig Tree

Duncan Gillies

Winner of the 2022 Highland Book Prize. A new collection of short stories from the author of Tocasaid ’Ain Tuirc, bringing the same sharp wit and observational skill to this evocation of Lewis life and people from last century intertwined with stories situated elsewhere, and giving as authentic a voice to an angry child’s resentment, a woman’s regret or an old man’s fears. Duncan Gillies is from Knockaird, in Ness, the northern tip of the Isle of Lewis. Fig Tree is his fourth published collection of short stories and the first book of his in which Gaelic and English appear together, side by side.

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Duncan Gillies

Soon after his birth in Glasgow, Scotland in 1941, Duncan and his parents returned to their native Knockaird, near Ness on the Isle of Lewis. After completing school in Stornoway, left the island to study at the University of Aberdeen where he graduated and then moved to London where he lives and works to this day.

​As his love of the gaelic language deepened along with a developing creative talent in writing, he approached the University of Glasgow’s then Celtic Department, to publish a short book of translations from “Shakespeare’s Seven Sonnets” in 1988. Since then, he has gone on to write several more published books to wide acclaim. His short story collection, “Màiri Dhall agus Sgeulachdan Eile” was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s 2013 Best Scottish Book, Book of the Year in 2014 and a 3rd place prize in 2019  for “An Còta Dathach agus Deich Sgeulachdan Eile” from An Comunn Gàidhealach, of which Her Majesty the Queen is patron.

He has also worked extensively with BBC Radio nan Gàidheal and BBC Alba, with his audio books an interviews providing a  significant and widely respected level of unique insight and authenticity to the Gaelic language and culture.