Nan Shepherd (February 11, 1893 to February 23, 1981) was a Scottish writer.
Robert Macfarlane, writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge, described her as "a blazingly brilliant writer, a true original whose novels, poems and non-fiction broke new ground in Scottish literature" Her feline references may be distinctively Scottish, such as the charming bit of poetry she quotes in The Weatherhouse (1930): " ...'The grey cat's kittled in Charley's wig'..."
About her nonfiction book, The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm (1977), we read "The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd’s knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places."
It is a quote from this book that is on the back of the Scottish five pound note --“But the struggle between frost and the force in running water is not quickly over. The battle fluctuates, and at the point of fluctuation between the motion in water and the immobility of frost, strange and beautiful forms are evolved.”
Robert Macfarlane, writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge, described her as "a blazingly brilliant writer, a true original whose novels, poems and non-fiction broke new ground in Scottish literature" Her feline references may be distinctively Scottish, such as the charming bit of poetry she quotes in The Weatherhouse (1930): " ...'The grey cat's kittled in Charley's wig'..."
About her nonfiction book, The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm (1977), we read "The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd’s knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places."
It is a quote from this book that is on the back of the Scottish five pound note --“But the struggle between frost and the force in running water is not quickly over. The battle fluctuates, and at the point of fluctuation between the motion in water and the immobility of frost, strange and beautiful forms are evolved.”
The writer herself is on the face of that Scottish currency, introduced in 2016.
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