Aonghas MacNeacail, nickname Aonghas dubh or Black Angus is a contemporary writer in the Scottish Gaelic language. Born and brought up in the Isle of Skye, he was registered at birth as Angus Nicolson, but has changed his official name to his native Gaelic. He attended Uig Primary School and Portree High School, and from 1968 the University of Glasgow where he was one of a group of young writers who gathered around Philip Hobsbaum which also included James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead and Jeff Torrington. Besides drawing on his Gaelic traditions, MacNeacail is influenced by the Black Mountain School of the USA. He has held writing fellowships in Scotland, including residences at the Gaelic college of Sabhal M�r Ostaig, and reads his work at festivals around the world. He has collaborated with musicians and visual artists, and written drama. MacNeacail won the Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year with his third collection, Oideachadh Ceart, in 1997. His most recent collection Laoidh an Donais �ig was published by Polygon in 2007. His partner is the actor and writer Gerda Stevenson. 

January 1st, 1942 in Uig (Age 82)