Year	Births	Deaths	Texts
1394	James I
c1420	Robert Henryson
1437		James I
c1460	William Dunbar
c1474	Gavin Douglas
c1490	David Lyndsay	Robert Henryson
1501			Douglas, The Palice of Honour
1508			Dunbar, six poems
c1513	John Knox
c1520		William Dunbar
1522		Gavin Douglas
1528			Lyndsay, The Dreme of David Lyndsay
1529			Lyndsay, The Complaynt of the King
1536			Lyndsay, The Complaynt and Publict Confessioun of the Kingis AuldHound callit Bangsche
1538			Lyndsay, The Testament and Complaynt of Our Soverane Lordis Papyngo
c1545	Alexander Montgomerie
1553			Douglas (post.), The XIII Bukes of the Eneados
1555		David Lyndsay
1556	James VI
1558			Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimentof Women
1567	William Alexander Alexander Craig
1572		John Knox
1585	William Drummond of Hawthornden John Scott of Scotstarvit		James VI, Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie["Reulisand Cautelis"]
1586			Knox (post), History of the Reformation Within the Realm of Scotland
1597			Montgomerie, The Cherie and the Slae James VI, Daemonologie
1598		Alexander Montgomerie
1599			James VI, Basilicon Doron
1603			Alexander, Darius Lyndsay (post), Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estatis
1604			Alexander, Aurora Craig, The Political Essayes of Alexander Craige, Scoto-Britane
c1611	Thomas Urquhart
1613			Drummond, Tears on the Death of Meliades
1614			Alexander, Doomes-day Drummond, Poems, Amorous, Funereall, Divine, Pastorall in Sonnets,Songs, Sextains, Madrigals
1623			Drummond, Flowres of Sion
1625		James VI
1627		Alexander Craig
1637			Scott of Scotstarvit, Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum
1640		William Alexander
1641			Urquhart, Epigrams: Diving and Moral
1649		William Drummond
1652			Urquhart, The Discoverie of a Most Exquisite Jewel, Pantochronicon
1653			Urquhart, Logopandicteison
1660		Thomas Urquhart
1670		John Scott of Scotstarvit
1684	Allan Ramsay
1699	Robert Blair
1711	David Hume
1713			Ramsay, A Poem to the Memory of the Famous Archibald Pitcairne
1714	James Burnett, Lord Moboddo
1721	Thomas Blacklock Tobias Smollett William Wilkie		Ramsay, Poems
1722	John Home
1723	Adam Smith
1724	Duncan Ban MacIntyre [Donncadh Ban Mac an t-Saoir]		Ramsay, The Evergreen, The Tea-Table Miscellany
1725			Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd
1729	John Moore
1732	William Falconer James Macpherson
1739			Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
1740	James Boswell
1741			Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
1743			Blair, The Grave
1745	Henry Mackenzie
1746		Robert Blair	Smollett, Advice: a Satire
1748			Hume, Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Behavior Smollett, Roderick Random
1750	Robert Fergusson
1751			Hume, An Enquiry Concering the Principles of Morals Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
1753	Dugald Stewart		Smollett, Ferdinand, Count Fathom
1757			Home, Douglas Wilkie, The Epigoniad
1758	Elizabeth Hamilton	Allan Ramsay	Macpherson, The Highlander
1759	Robert Burns		Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
1760			Blacklock, A Collection of Original Poems Macpherson, Fragments of Anceint Poetry
1761			Macpherson, Fingal
1762	Joanna Bailiie		Falconer, The Shipwreck Smollett, Launcelot Greaves
1763			Macpherson, Temora
1765			Macpherson, The Works of Ossian
1768			Boswell, An Account of Corsica MacIntyre, Poems Wilkie, Fables
1769		William Falconer
1770	James Hogg
1771	Mungo Park Walter Scott	Tobias Smollett	Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling Smollett, Roderick Random
1772		William Wilkie
1773			Fergusson, Auld Reekie: a Poem, Poems Mackenzie, The Man of the World Lord Moboddo, On the Origin and Progress of Language
1774		Robert Fergusson
1776		David Hume	Smith, The Wealth of Nations
1777	Thomas Campbell
1779	Mary [Balfour] Brunton
1782	Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
1783			James I (post), The Kingis Quair
1784	William Tennant
1785	John Wilson ["Christopher North"]		Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
1786			Burns, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
1787			Burns (ed), The Scots Musical Museum
1788	George Gordon, Lord Byron
1789	Michael Scott		Moore, Zeluco
1790		Adam Smith	Baillie, Fugitive Pieces
1791		Thomas Blacklock	Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Burns, "Tam o'Shanter"
1793			Stewart, Outlines of Moral Philosophy
1794	John Gibson Lockhart
1795	Thomas Carlyle	James Boswell	Smith (post), Essays on Philosophical Subjects
1796	G(eorge) R(obert) Gleig	Robert Burns James Macpherson	Scott (trans), The Chase, and William and Helen, Two Ballads fromthe German
1797	William Motherwell ["Isaac Brown"]
1798	David Macbeth Moir		Baillie, Plays of Passion
1799	John Galt	James Burnett, Lord Monboddo	Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
1800	Catherine Sinclair		Burns (post), The Merry Muses of Caledonia
1801			Hogg, Scottish Pastorals
1802		John Moore	Scott (ed), The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
1805			Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel
1806		Mungo Park
1807			Byron, Hours of Idleness
1808		John Home	Cambpell, Gertrude of Wyoming Hamilton, The Cottagers of Glenburnie Scott, Marmion
1810			Brunton, Self Control Hogg, The Forest Minstrel Scott, The Lady of the Lake
1812		Duncan Ban MacIntyre	Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Tennant, Anster Fair Wilson, Isle of Palms and Other Poems
1813	W(illiam) E(dmonstone) Aytoun David Livingstone		Byron, The Bride of Abydos
1814			Scott, Waverley
1815			Scott, Guy Mannering
1816		Elizabeth Hamilton
1818		Mary Brunton	Byron, Beppo Ferrier, Marriage Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck Scott, The Heart of Midlothian, Rob Roy
1819			Byron, Don Juan Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets Lockhart, Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk Motherwell, The Harp of Renfrewshire Scott, Ivanhoe
1821	Mary Macpherson [Mairi "Mairi Mhor nan Oran" nic-a-Phearsain] George John Whyte-Melville		Galt, The Annals of the Parish, The Ayrshire Legatees Scott, Kenilworth
1822			Lockhart, Adam Blair Tennant, The Thane of Fife
1823			Galt, The Entail, Ringhan Gilhaize Wilson, The Trials of Margaret Lyndsay
1824	George MacDonald	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Campbell, Theodoric Carlyle (trans), Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Ferrier, The Inheritance Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Scott, Redgauntlet
1825	R(obert) M(ichael) Ballantyne William McGonagall		Wilson, The Foresters
1826	William Alexander		Gleig, The Subaltern
1827	Henrietta Keddie ["Sarah Tytler"]		Tennant, Papistry Stormed
1828	Margaret [Wilson] Oliphant	Dugald Stewart	Lockhart, Life of Robert Burns Moir, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor of Dalkeith
1831		Henry Mackenzie	Ferrier, Destiny
1832		Walter Scott	Aytoun, Poland, Homer, and Other Poems
1834	James Thomson		Poems of William Dunbar Hogg, Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd Michael Scott, Tom Cringle's Log
1835		James Hogg William Motherwell Michael Scott	Michael Scott, The Cruise of the Midge
1836			Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
1837			Carlyle, The French Revolution Lockhart, Memoirs on the Life of Scott
1839		John Galt	Sinclair, Holiday House
1840	William ["Gordon"] Stables
1841			Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History
1843			Carlyle, Past and Present Wilson, The Noctes Ambrosianae
1844	Andrew Lang	Thomas Campbell
1845	William Minto		Aytoun (with Theodore Martin), The Book of Ballads
1848		William Tennant	Ballantyne, Hudson's Bay, Every-day Life in the Wilds of North America
1849			Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems Oliphant, Margaret Maitland
1850	Robert Louis Stevenson John Watson ["Ian Maclaren"]
1851		Joanna Baillie David Macbeth Moir
1854	James George Frazer	Susan Edmonstone Ferrier John Gibson Lockhart John Wilson
1855	William Sharp ["Fiona Macleod"]
1856			Ballantyne, The Young Fur Traders
1857	John Davidson		Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa MacDonald, Phantastes
1858			Ballantyne, The Coral Island
1859	S(amuel) R(utherfod) Crockett Arthur Conan Doyle Kenneth Grahame Annie S. Swan
1860	J(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
1862	Helen Bannerman		Whyte-Melville, The Queen's Maries
1863	Violet Jacob		MacDonald, David Elginbrod Oliphant, Salem Chapel
1864	Neil Munro ["Hugh Foulis"]	Catherine Sinclair	Oliphant, The Perpetual Curate
1865	Mary Findlater	W.E. Aytoun
1866	Jane Findlater		Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks Stevenson, The Pentland Rising
1869	George Douglas Brown		Oliphant, The Minster's Wife
1871			Alexander, Johnny Gibb of Gushetneuk MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
1872			MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
1873		David Livingstone
1875	John Buchan
1878	David Lindsay	George John Whyte-Melville	Stevenson, An Inland Voyage
1879	Catherine [Macfarlane] Carswell		Swan, Ups and Downs
1880			Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
1881	John Macdougall Hay (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie	Thomas Carlyle	Stables, Wild Adventures in Wild Places
1882		James Thomson	Sharp, The Human Inheritance, The New Hope, Motherhood and OtherPoems Stevenson, New Arabian Nights
1883			Stevenson, Treasure Island Swan, Aldersyde
1884			Keddie, St. Mungo's City Swan, Carlowrie
1885			Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, Kidnapped
1886	Helen Cruickshank		Minto, The Crack of Doom Oliphant, Effie Ogilvie Stables, Cruise of the Land Yacht Wanderer Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1887	Edwin Muir		Doyle, A Study in Scarlet Frazer, Totemism Keddie, Logie Town Lang, Myth, Ritual and Religion Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae
1888		G.R. Gleig	Barrie, Auld Licht Idylls Lang, The Gold of Farnilee Sharp, The Sport of Chance
1889			Lang, Prince Prigio
1890	Willa Muir		Davidson, Perfervid Doyle, The Sign of the Four Frazer, The Golden Bough McGonagall, Poetic Gems
1891	Neil M(iller) Gunn		Davidson, In a Music-Hall Doyle, The White Company Macpherson, Dain agus Orain Gheidlig
1892	Christopher Murray Grieve ["Hugh Macdiarmid"]
1893	George Blake	William Minto	Crockett, The Stickit Minister Davidson, Fleet Street Ecologues Grahame, Pagan Papers
1894		William Alexander R.M. Ballantyne Robert Louis Stevenson	Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet Davidson, Baptist Lake Watson, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
1895			Grahame, The Golden Age Lang, My Own Fairy Book MacDonald, Lilith Watson, Days of Auld Lang Syne
1896	A(rchibald) J(oseph) Cronin		Barrie, Sentimental Tommy Doyle, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard Jane Findlater, The Green Graves of Balgowrie Munro, The Lost Pibroch Stevenson (post), Weir of Hermiston
1897	Naomi [Haldan] Mitchison	Margaret Oliphant	Barrie, The Little Minister
1898		Mary Macpherson	Munro, John Splendid
1899	Eric Linklater		Bannerman, The Story of Little Black Sambo Brown, Love and a Sword
1901	James Leslie Mitchell ["Lewis Grassic Gibbon"]		Brown, The House with the Green Shutters Munro, Doom Castle Sharp, From the Hills of Dreams
1902		George Douglas Brown William McGonagall	Barrie, The Admirable Crichton Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles Jacob, The Sheep-Stealers
1903			Mary Findlater, The Rose of Joy
1904			Barrie, Peter Pan
1905		George MacDonald William Sharp	Jacob, Poems
1906	Thomas Douglas Macdonald ["Fionn MacColla"]		Doyle, Sir Nigel Munro, The Vital Spark
1907		John Watson
1908			Jane & Mary Findlater, Crossrigs Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
1909	Robert Garioch Sutherland
1910	Norman MacCaig	William Stables
1911	Sorley MacLean [Somhairle MacGill-Eain]		Barrie, Peter and Wendy Jane & Mary Findlater, Penny Monypenny Mackenzie, The Passionate Elopement
1912		Andrew Lang	Doyle, The Lost World Mackenzie, Carnival
1913			Doyle, The Poison Belt Mackenzie, Sinsiter Street
1914		S.R. Crockett Henrietta Keddies	Hay, Gillespie Munro, The New Road
1915	Sydney Goodsir Smith		Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps Jacob, Songs of Angus
1916			Buchan, Greenmantle
1918	(John) Maurice Lindsay Tom Scott Muriel Spark		Edwin Muir, We Moderns
1919	Hamish Henderson	John Macdougall Hay
1920	Edwin Morgan		Carswell, Open the Door! Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus
1921	George Mackay Brown
1923			Jane & Mary Findlater, Beneath the Visiting Moon Grieve, Annals of the Five Senses Mitchison, The Conquered
1925	George MacDonald Fraser		Grieve, Sangschaw Muir, First Poem
1926			Grieve, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Penny Wheep Gunn, Grey Coast
1927			Grieve, Albyn, or Scotland and the Future Jacob, Northern Lights and Other Poems Muir, The Marionette
1928	Iain Crichton Smith [Iain Mac a'Ghobhainn]		Mitchell, Hanno, or the Future of Exploration
1929			Linklater, Poet's Pub, White Maa's Saga
1930		Arthur Conan Doyle Neil Munro	Carswell, The Life of Robert Burns Grieve, To Circumjack Cencrastus Gunn, Morning Tide Mitchell, Strained Radiance
1931			Cronin, Hatter's Castle Grieve, First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems Linklater, Juan in America Mitchison, The Corn King and the Spring Queen Willa Muir, Imagined Corners
1932		Kenneth Grahame	Grieve, Second Hymn to Lenin MAcdonald, The Albannach Mitchell, Sunset Song
1933			Gunn, Sun Circle Mitchell, Cloud Howe, Spartacus Willa Muir, Mrs. Ritchie
1934	Alasdair Gray		Cruickshank, Up the Noran Water Grieve, At the Sign of the Thistle Gunn, Butcher's Broom Mitchell, Gray Granite
1935		James Leslie Mitchell	Blake, The Shipbuilders
1936			Edwin Muir, Scott and Scotland Willa Muir, Mrs. Grundy in Scotland
1937		J.M. Barrie
1940		John Buchan	MacLean & Sutherland, 17 Poems for 6d
1941		James George Frazer	Gunn, The Silver Darlings Mackenzie, The Monarch of the Glen Sydney Goodsir Smith, Skail Wind
1942	Douglas Dunn
1943		Annie S. Swann	Grieve, Lucky Poet MacCaig, Far Cry MacLean, Dain do Eimhir agus Dain Eile Edwin Muir, The Narrow Place
1944	Tom Leonard
1945		David Lindsay	Macdonald, And the Cock Crew
1946		Helen Bannerman Catherine Carswell Jane Findlater Violet Jacob	MacCaig, The Inward Eye
1947	Liz Lochhead		Mackenzie, Whisky Galore Mitchison, The Bull Calves
1948			Henderson, Elegies for the Dead in Cyranica Sydney Goodsir Smith, Under the Eildon Tree
1949			Muir, The Labyrinth Sutherland, Chuckis on a Cairn
1952			Morgan, Dies Iraes, The Vision of Cathkin Braes Sydney Goodsir Smith, So Late into the Night
1953			Scott, Seevin Poems o Maister Francis Villon
1954	Iain [M(enzies)] Banks		Brown, Self
1955			MacCaig, Riding Lights
1959	Robert Crawford	Edwin Muir	Brown, Loaves and Fishes Sydney Goodsir Smith, Figs and Thistles
1960			Iain Crichton Smith, Burn is Aran Sprak, The Ballad of Peckham Rye
1961		George Blake	Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1963		Mary Findlater	Scott, The Ship and Ither Poems
1965			Sydney Goodsir Smith, Kynd Kittock's Land
1966			Grieve, The Company I've Kept
1968			Iain Crichton Smith, Consider the Lilies
1969			Dunn, Terry Street Fraser, Flashman Leonard, Six Glasgow Poems Lindsay, The Business of Living MacCaig, A Man in My Position
1970		Willa Muir
1971			Dunn, Backwaters
1972			Brown, Greenvoe Lochhead, Memo for Spring
1973		Neil M. Gunn Compton Mackenzie
1974		Eric Linklater
1975		Helen Cruickshank Thomas Douglas Macdonald Sydney Goodsir Smith	Sutherland, Two Men and a Blanket
1978		Christopher Murray Grieve
1981		A.J. Cronin Robert Sutherland	Gray, Lanark Iain Crichton Smith, Murdo
1982			Iain Crichton Smith, A Field Full of Folk
1983			Gray, Unlikely Stories, Mostly
1984			Banks, The Wasp Factory Gray, 1982, Janine Leonard, Intimate Voices
1985			Dunn, Secret Villages
1987			Lochhead, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
1988			Dunn, Northlight
1990			Crawford, A Scottish Assembly Gray, Something Leather
1992			Crawford, Devolving English Literature Gray, Poor Things
1996		George Mackay Brown Norman MacCaig