Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023

Camille Manfredi is Professor of Scottish literature and visual arts at the University of Western Brittany. She recently co-edited Scottish Writing after Devolution: Edges of the New (2022) and Intermedial Art Practices as Cultural Resilience (2024).Fiona Paterson holds a PhD in Scottish Literature from the University of Glasgow. Her PhD thesis, Hugh MacDiarmid, Poetry and the Idea of World Language (2024), presents a survey of MacDiarmid’s engagement with language and languages throughout his career. She has published book reviews and papers on MacDiarmid and his contemporaries in literary journals and has presented on Scottish modernism at various conferences and events.Philippe Laplace is Professor at the University Marie et Louis Pasteur (Besançon). He is the author of a 2006 monograph on Neil M. Gunn and currently researches St Kilda and its literary representation within Scottish and broader cultural studies.