Archie Hind

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Archie Hind


Born
in Carntyne, Glasgow, Scotland
June 03, 1928

Died
February 21, 2008

Genre
Fiction, Journalism


Archie Hind was a Scottish writer and the author of The Dear Green Place (1966).

The Dear Green Place was his only completed work, but it won four major awards and has been listed as one of the best 100 Scottish novels of all time.

The success of The Dear Green Place, a reference to his birthplace and hometown of Glasgow, turned Hind from a trolleybus driver/former slaughterhouse worker into a successful and notable writer. He won 1966’s Guardian First Book Award. Hind went on to publish journalistic articles and wrote several plays and theatrical revues, notably for Glasgow's Citizen's Theatre.

The unfinished manuscript of Fur Sadie was thought to have been lost or destroyed, but it was pieced together by Alasdair Gray and journalist/literary ...more

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Average rating: 3.64 · 222 ratings · 33 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
The Dear Green Place & Fur ...
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3.66 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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The Dear Green Place
3.63 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1966 — 12 editions
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“I never make plans for tomorrow doesn't exist.”
― Archie Hind
tags: life, time, tomorrow
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“Belongs! Belongs! A dirty, filthy city. But with a kind of ample vitality which has created fame for her slums and her industry and given her moral and spiritual existence a tight ingrown wealth, like a human character limited, but with a direct brutish strength, almost warm.”
― Archie Hind, The Dear Green Place
tags: city, glasgow, industry, slums, strength
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