Favourite Writers :
Halldor Laxness,
Tormod Caimbeul.
Italo Calvino,
George Eliot,
Milan Kundera,
Graham Greene,
Czelaw Milosz,
Dashiell Hammett
Deagh bhriathran | Favourite Quotes:
“Signore, I believe letters to be the most precious of relics” (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (St John)
“Whatever else it may be, a poem is a verbal artefact which must be as skilfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motor-bicycle”(W.H. Auden),
“The writer is not a prisoner of any one language” (Vera Linhartova)
Dàin | Favourite Poems
Hallaig (Somhairle MacGill-Eain)
Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill (Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair)
A una estatua de proa (Elegía) - To a Ship's Figurehead (Elegy) (Pablo Neruda)
Koniec i poczatek - Beginnings and Ends (Wislawa Szymborska)
Amazing Grace (John Newton)
Nobhailean | Favourite novels:
War and Peace,
Anna Karenina,
Le Grand Meaulnes,
Independent People,
An Druim bho Thuath
Ceòl|Favourite music:
An t-seinn aig Criosaidh Denny. Gu h-àraidh an t-òran 'Gur Moch Rinn Mi Dusgadh'. Seo i a seinn òran eile.
Ealain | Favourite Artist:
Lionel Messi.