In 2005, Sunset Song was voted the country's top book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, beating Irvine Welsh's cult novel "Trainspotting" to the top spot.Ī play "Grassic Gibbon" celebrating Gibbon's life and work toured Scotland in 2009, proving his relevance in the country's cultural landscape today. The series featured BBC Scotland's first nude scene. Sunset Song was first published in 1932 and adapted for a television series by the BBC in 1971 with Vivien Heilbron taking the lead as Chris Guthrie, developing her intellectual and sexual development within rural North East Scotland before the onset of World War I. Gibbon worked firstly as a journalist and then joined the Royal Army Service Corps, followed by the RAF where he served in the Middle East. Gibbon was born in Auchterless in Aberdeenshire in 1901 as James Leslie Mitchell, later taking the pen name of Lewis Grassic Gibbon for his fictional works. The most famous of these is "Sunset Song", familiar to schoolchildren throughout Scotland alongside "Cloud Howe" and "Grey Granite" which form the "Scots Quair" trilogy. Vivien Heilbron as Chris Guthrie in the BBC's Sunset Song
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