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- Alan_Spence abstract "Alan Spence (born 1947) is a Scottish writer and is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen, where he is also artistic director of the annual WORD Festival. He was born in Glasgow, and much of his work is set in the city. Alan Spence is a award-winning poet and playwright, novelist and short-story and has recently been commissioned by Scottish Opera to words for a piece with music by Miriama Young. His first work was the collection of short stories Its colours they are fine, first published in 1977. This was followed by two plays, Sailmaker in 1982 and Space Invaders in 1983. The novel The Magic Flute appeared in 1990 along with his first book of poetry Glasgow Zen. In 1991 another of his plays, Changed Days, was published before a brief hiatus. He returned in 1996 with Stone Garden, another collection of short stories. In 1996, The Pure Land, a historical novel set in Japan, was published by Canongate Books is based on the life of Thomas Blake Glover and is immortalised in the story of Madame Butterfly. Alan Spence is member of the Edinburgh Sri Chinmoy Centre and practises meditation.".
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