Literature

Scottish writers

Scotland has long been recognised as a breeding ground for world-class wordsmiths.

Quite what the creative impulse has been which has seen successive generations produce writers and poets of the calibre of Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Muriel Spark, Naomi Mitchison, Iain Banks, Sorley Maclean and Alasdair Gray is impossible to say. What is certain is that the continuing culture of creativity, innovation and experimentation that encourages such talents will ensure that there will always be a new chapter added to Scotland's rich literary heritage.