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Dec 18, 2019 · Welsh is, after all, the bard of big nights out, the unofficial poet laureate of the absolutely leathered; a man who turned tales of drink and drug-fuelled craziness into an art form – as well...
Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist and short story writer. His 1993 novel Trainspotting was made into a film of the same name. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.
Oct 31, 2023 · Choose Irvine Welsh is one of 30 films to be screened during the seventh annual Central Scotland Documentary Festival, which opens on Thursday.
- George Mair
Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh in 1958. He lived in London after leaving school, but returned to his native city where he worked in the Council's housing department. He gained a degree in computer science and studied for an MBA at Heriot Watt University.
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Jonathan Cape Ltd
Feb 22, 2017 · Irvine Welsh's ascent from obscurity to Scottish literary royalty was born from an ability to capture the brutal realism of everyday life in some of Edinburgh's most deprived areas.
Nov 17, 2020 · In Offended by Irvine Welsh, he investigates whether censorious mobs are having a damaging effect on the arts. Welsh has built a career on the back of saying the apparently unsayable, but...
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Jun 6, 2022 · He encouraged writers to look at literature and art in a completely different way. His cut-ups spilled into Bowie and others. He was incredibly subversive, but an interesting writer as well.
