Editing Sorley MacLean (section)

==Awards and honours==
In June 1987, MacLean became the first [[Freedom of the City|freeman]] of [[Skye and Lochalsh]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k0w1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=WqYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=6492%2C3887212 |title=Freedom of Skye |work=The Glasgow Herald |date=15 June 1987 |page=3 |access-date=15 December 2016}}</ref> He received seven [[honorary degree]]s.{{efn-lr|{{bulletedlist|L.L.D., University of Dundee 1972| D.Litt., Celt, the [[National University of Ireland]] 1979|D.Litt., University of Edinburgh 1980|D.Univ., [[Open University]] 1989| D.Univ., [[University of Grenoble]] 1989|D.Phil., [[Anglia Polytechnic]] 1994| D.Litt., [[University of Glasgow]] 1996{{r|awards}}}}}} Twice, he was the honorary head of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, in 1970 and 1982; he was made honorary president of the [[Saltire Society]] in 1985.<ref name="awards" /> In 1989, he became a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]]. The next year, he was named the first University of Edinburgh Alumnus of the Year,<ref name=alumnus/> and awarded a [[Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry]].<ref name=library/><ref name="larach"/> ''O Choille gu Bearradh'' was the [[Saltire Society]] [[Saltire Society Literary Awards|Scottish Book of the Year]] for 1990, and MacLean won the [[McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year]].<ref name=awards/> He became a Fellow of the [[Educational Institute of Scotland]] in 1991, a [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 1992, an honorary fellow of the [[Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland]] in 1996, and an honorary [[Royal Scottish Academician]] the same year.<ref name="awards" /> He was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1992;<ref name="irish" /> it has been suggested that he might have won if he had not written in such a marginalized language.{{r|saviour|review}} MacLean is commemorated by a stone in [[Makars' Court]], outside the [[Writers' Museum]], [[Lawnmarket]], Edinburgh, unveiled in 1998 by Iain Crichton Smith.<ref name="Makars' Court"/>