There is a memorial to him and his wife, and other members of the Mitchell family, in the western corner of the village churchyard (parish church of Saint Ternan) of Arbuthnott, nowadays in Aberdeenshire. The Grassic Gibbon Centre was established in Arbuthnott in 1991 to commemorate the author's life. It was dramatised by Bill Craig and the BBC, as a Play for Today in 1976, along with two other short stories, 'Clay' and 'Greenden'. Like A Scots Quair, it is set in north-east Scotland with strong female characters. Possibly his best-known is 'Smeddum', a Scots word which could be best translated as the colloquial term 'guts'. His stories were collected posthumously in A Scots Hairst (1969). In 1934 Mitchell collaborated with Hugh MacDiarmid on Scottish Scene, which included three of Gibbon's short stories. Spartacus, a novel set in the famous slave revolt, is his best-known full-length work outside this trilogy. Additionally, Sunset Song has been adapted into a film, released in 2015. All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland, written by Bill Craig, with Vivien Heilbron as Chris. It tells the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman growing up in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century. A Scots Quair, with its combination of stream-of-consciousness, lyrical use of dialect, and social realism, is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. Wells, but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair, and in particular its first book Sunset Song, with which he made his mark. Mitchell gained attention from his earliest attempts at fiction, notably from H. He suffered an early death in 1935 from peritonitis, brought on by a perforated ulcer. He began writing full time in 1929, producing numerous books and shorter works under his real name and his pseudonym.

When he married Rebecca Middleton (known as Ray) in 1925, they settled in Welwyn Garden City. In the RAF he worked as a clerk and spent some time in the Middle East. In 1919, Mitchell joined the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Iran, India and Egypt before enlisting in the Royal Air Force in 1920. During that time he was active with the British Socialist Party. Gibbon grew up in Stonehaven, and attended Mackie Academy.

He was best known for A Scots Quair, a trilogy set in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century, of which all three parts have been serialised on BBC television.īorn in Auchterless and raised from the age of seven in Arbuthnott, in the former county of Kincardineshire, Mitchell started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal in 1917 and later for the Farmers Weekly after moving to Glasgow. Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. Memorial to Lewis Grassic Gibbon in Arbuthnott kirkyard

Sunset song by lewis grassic gibbon