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Gunnie Moberg
Orkney's foremost literary figure, novelist, poet and playwright George Mackay Brown was a prolific, award- winning writer, but as an islander he was private and unassuming. One of his most enduring friendships was with Swedish photographer Gunnie Moberg, who first enc0untered the writer when she moved to Orkney in 1976.
Among the last works Mackay Brown produced were 48 poems written to accompany a series of landscape shots taken by Moberg around the island over twenty years. Together, the words and pictures are exhibited at the Book Festival in Orkney: Poems And Pictures, as a tribute to the writer who died last w _. , . . ., . year. George Mackay Brown: by Swedish photographer Gunnie Moberg WHAT KIND or meER ARE you?
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