ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL (Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul) was born and brought up on the Island of South Uist. He is an award winning poet and novelist, with his Gaelic novel An Oidhche Mus do Shèol Sinn
voted into the Top Ten of the Best-Ever Books from Scotland in the List/Orange Awards in 2005. His poetry collection Aibisidh was selected as the Poetry Book of the Year in Scotland in 2012. He works as a journalist and actor and was nominated for a Scottish bafta for the lead role in the film Seachd. He is a Double Honours graduate in
Politics and History from the University of Edinburgh. Sorley MacLean reviewed his first collection of poetry as ‘a masterpiece’, and he has elsewhere been described as the Mark Twain of modern Gaelic literature. He lives in An Caol with his wife and children and likes their music-making.
