Alastair Campbell

Alasdair Caimbeul, also known as Alasdair a’ Bhocsair or Alasdair Campbell, is a Scottish playwright, short story writer, and novelist from Ness on the Isle of Lewis. Renowned for writing many stories in his native tongue Gaelic, in addition to a few in English, he is a native of the Isle of Lewis.

He has written plays, short stories, and novels in Scottish Gaelic and in English. He began to write in Gaelic in 1984. Bùth a’ Bhaile (“the store of the town”) was his first play. He was involved with theater companies, among them ‘Na Nisich’ in Lewis and Cluicheadairean Loch Aillse. From 1988 to 1990 he was a writer-in-residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on the Isle of Skye. He wrote the novels The Nessman and Visiting the Bard in English.

He won the Stornoway Gazette Award for new play in 2009 at the Royal National Mòd.

His novel Ro Fhada san t-Suidheachadh Seo won the first prize at the 2015 Donald Meek Awards.