James Kelman
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James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist.
In 1989, his book A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
Kelman received the 1994 Booker Award for his book How Late It Was, How Late It Was.
The Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award was given to Kelman in 1998.
Kieron Smith, Boy, a 2008 book, received both of Scotland's top literary awards: the Saltire Society's Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.
Life and work
Born in Glasgow, Kelman says:
Kelman himself claimed that his main influences came from "two literary traditions, the European Existential, and the American Realist," although his style was also inspired by the modernist movement. Émile Zola, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, and James Joyce have all been influences on his writing, according to Kelman.
Kelman's first collection of short stories appeared in the 1970s. He, Tom Leonard, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Aonghas MacNeacail, and Jeff Torrington all joined Philip Hobsbaum's creative writing group in Glasgow, and his short stories began to appear in journals. These stories developed a distinct style, expressing first-person internal monologues in a pared-down prose using Glaswegian speech patterns, but they avoided for the most part the quasi-phonetic version of Tom Leonard. Kelman's evolving style has been influential on the succeeding generation of Scottish novelists, including Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, and Janice Galloway. Kelman was awarded the Stakis Prize for his collection of short stories The Good Times, one of several books of his stories that have been published, was awarded the Stakis Prize in 1998 for his collection of short stories. A film was produced in 2012 based on the short story "Greyhound For Breakfast."
The Busconductor Hines (1984), Kelman's first published book, although it was written after A Chancer, which was published in 1985. His 1989 novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Award and awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and he also received the 1994 Booker Award for his book "How Late It Was, How Late It Was." Kieron Smith, Boy, a 2008 book by Kieron Smith, was voted both the Saltire Society's Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.
JamesKelman.net, Kelman's official website, was launched in 2019.
Personal life
Marie Connors from South Wales was married by Kelman in 1969. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and their children, but he has also lived in London, Manchester, Australia, and America.