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Archie Hind

Born

in Carntyne, Glasgow, Scotland

June 03, 1928

Died

February 21, 2008

Genre

Fiction, Journalism

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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 · 257 ratings · 40 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dear Green Place & Fur Sadie by Archie Hind, Alasdair Gray (Introduction) 3.66 avg rating — 152 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dear Green Place 3.59 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1966 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Now's The Day, Now's the Hour: Poems for John Maclean by Henry Bell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joey Simons (Editor), Sorley Maclean (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scottish International 11 by Bob Tait (Editor), Tom McGrath (Contributor), Archie Hind (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1970	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Archie Hind (?)

“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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