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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 .
- Nationality: Scottish
- Spouse: Marie Connors, m. 1969
- Occupation: Writer
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Learn about James Kelman, a Scottish writer who won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1994 for How late it was, how late. Explore his biography, critical perspective, bibliography and awards.
- Place Of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
- Works For: Hamish Hamilton Ltd
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Jul 15, 2016 · James Kelman: ‘Intimidation, provocation, contempt - that's the working class experience' Libby Brooks. The author on writing from inside his Glasgow community, and why the furore around his...
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Aug 18, 2014 · James Kelman’s “If It Is Your Life” | The New Yorker. Books. Away Thinking About Things. By James Wood. August 18, 2014. Kelman is a funny, sour, expansive writer whose vernacular experiments...
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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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James Wood, another of the judges, acknowledged the book’s ‘atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival’ but found that ‘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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How did Kelman become a compositor?
The story is also partly inspired by Kelman’s own travels around the US as a young man. The second of five boys, growing up in solidly working class areas of Glasgow, first Govan and later Drumchapel, he left school at 15 to begin an apprenticeship as a compositor.

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But, alongside this materialism of subject and language (words as things, weapons, counters), Kelman insists on the play and the liberty (more often glimpsed than found) of the mind. It’s not that his characters escape from their impoverishment in flights of thought or imagination.

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Jul 29, 2012 · Decca Aitkenhead. The former Booker winner on why he often finds his critics' views unfair, and why swearing is an integral part of his work. Sun 29 Jul 2012 15.00 EDT. A s with all James...
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Jan 25, 2024 · How Late It Was, How Late, won the 1994 Booker Prize for its raw and demotic language and its depiction of a Glaswegian down-and-out. The book sparked a cultural debate about language, identity and colonialism, and influenced many subsequent writers.
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Aug 5, 2017 · James Kelman. Illustration by Alan Vest. Books. This article is more than 6 years old. James Kelman: ‘I'll die at the desk. So what. Where's the coffee?' The Scottish author on working on...