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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › James_KelmanJames Kelman - Wikipedia

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   James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working class narrators and their labyrinthine struggles with authority or social interactions, mostly set in his home city of Glasgow .

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3. literature.britishcouncil.org › writer › james-kelmanJames Kelman - Literature - British Council

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   James Kelman is one of the writers of the new Scottish renaissance of the 1980s and '90s, who responded to Scotland’s place in the emerging global economy by imagining Scottish urban experience in literature.

   • Place Of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland

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4. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2014/08/25James Kelman’s “If It Is Your Life” | The New Yorker

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   Aug 18, 2014 · By James Wood. August 18, 2014. Kelman is a funny, sour, expansive writer whose vernacular experiments push and twist the language, sometimes to breaking points. Photograph by Colin...

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6. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresJames Kelman, the Booker Prize and the ‘battle of the F-word ...

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   Jan 25, 2024 · James Kelman, the Booker Prize and the ‘battle of the F-word', 30 years on How Late It Was, How Late may have divided critics – and judges – but it remains one of the most influential Booker winners and raised prescient questions about decolonisation and self-determination

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   James Kelman (Author of How Late It Was, How Late) Discover new books on Goodreads. See if your friends have read any of James Kelman's books. Join Goodreads. James Kelman’s Followers (251) Born. in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland. June 09, 1946. Genre. Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Politics. Influences. Philip Hobsbaum. ...more. edit data.

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   • Birth Date: June 9, 1946

8. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentJames Kelman - British and Irish Literature - Oxford ...

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   Nov 26, 2019 · A comprehensive overview of the Scottish writer James Kelman, his fiction, style, politics, and influence. Includes introductions, reviews, essays, and bibliography on Kelman and his work.

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   Who was James Kelman?

   • James Kelman (b. 1946) is the leading Scottish writer of the post-1960s period and widely known for championing the artistic validity of working-class language. With his fellow Glasgow writers Alasdair Gray, Tom Leonard, and Liz Lochhead, he is credited with inspiring a “new renaissance” in Scottish literature in the 1980s and 1990s.

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   What is Kelman like?

   • There is an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival. But within these limits, and because of them, Kelman is a funny, sour, expansive writer, whose strange, new sentences are brilliant adventures in thought.

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   What is Kelman's background?

   • Kelman says: My own background is as normal or abnormal as anyone else's. Born and bred in Govan and Drumchapel, inner city tenement to the housing scheme homeland on the outer reaches of the city.

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10. thebookerprizes.com › authors › james-kelmanJames Kelman | The Booker Prizes

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    James Kelman was born in Glasgow. His novel How Late It Was, How Late won the 1994 Booker Prize. After leaving school at 15 Kelman worked in the printing industry and as a bus driver.