James Kelman

James Kelman

male, 63 years old
first-person narrative, novelist, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Tom Leonard, Glaswegian speech patterns, How late it was, how late…Scottishnovelist, Scottish
James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories, plays and political essays. His novel "A...
Alan Warner

Alan Warner

male, 45 years old
Child of Albion Rovers, Encore Award, Somerset Maugham Award, Scottishnovelist, These Demented Lands, The Man Who Walks…Scottish, Scottish writer, novelist
Alan Warner (born 1964), a Scottish novelist, grew up in Oban. Together with Irvine Welsh and A. L. Kennedy he is seen by many critics as one of...

Colin Douglas

male, 64 years old
MB ChB Edinburgh, novel - bleeders come first, novel - Ethics made easy, BBC TV dramatisation, comic medical writer, The Housemans trilogy…Scottish, Scottishnovelist, novelist
Colin Douglas is the pseudonym of a Scottish novelist, Colin Thomas Currie, born in Glasgow in 1945, who was schooled at Hamilton Academy before...
Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

male, 51 years old
novelist, Alumni of Heriot-Watt University, From Edinburgh, leith, trainspotting, Creation Records artist…Scottish
Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958 Leith, Edinburgh) is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. He has also...