Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh ca. 2004 at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Born	September 27, 1958 (1958-09-27) (age 49) Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	British
Genres	Literature, Novel
Literary movement	Modernism, Post Modernism
Notable work(s)	Trainspotting
Influences Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William Burroughs, Alex Trocchi, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, William McIlvanney, Alan Spence, Iggy Pop, Bertolt Brecht, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, Kierkegaard, James Joyce

Irvine Welsh (born Leith, Edinburgh, 27 September 1958) is an acclaimed contemporary Scottish novelist, most famous for his novel Trainspotting. The Edinburgh International Book Festival, is a Book festival that takes place in the last three weeks of August every year (in the midst of the general Edinburgh Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Formerly a municipal Burgh, Leith (Lìte is a district in the north of the city of Edinburgh at the mouth of the Water of Leith and is the port Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Literature is the Art of written works Literally translated the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story This is a list of modern literary movements: that is movements after the Renaissance. Modernism describes an array of Cultural movements rooted in the changes in Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Postmodernism literally means 'after the modernist movement' While " Modern " itself refers to something "related to the present" the movement of modernism Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the Pen name of French writer and doctor Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (27 May 1894 &ndash 1 July 1961 William Seward Burroughs II ( – ˈbʌroʊz was an American Novelist, Essayist, Social critic, painter and Spoken word Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934 is a Scottish writer and Artist. James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9 1946) is an influential writer of Novels William McIlvanney (born in November 25, 1936 ¹ in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire Scotland) is a writer of crime stories novels and poetry James Newell Osterberg Jr (born April 21, 1947) better known by his Stage name Iggy Pop, is an American rock singer Songwriter (born; 10 February 1898&ndash14 August 1956 was a German Poet, Playwright, and Theatre director. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский, sometimes transliterated Dostoyevsky, Dostoievsky, Victor-Marie Hugo ( ( February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) was a French Poet, Playwright, Novelist Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (ˈsœːɐn ˈkʰiɐ̯kəˌɡ̊ɒˀ in Danish Anglicized as;) James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Formerly a municipal Burgh, Leith (Lìte is a district in the north of the city of Edinburgh at the mouth of the Water of Leith and is the port Edinburgh ( ˈɛdɪnb(ərə Dùn Èideann) is the Capital of Scotland and is its second largest city after Glasgow. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Fiction 3 Film and stage 4 Film adaptation 5 Themes 6 Style 7 Bibliography 8 References 9 External links

Biography

Irvine Welsh was born in Leith and moved with his family to Muirhouse, in Edinburgh, when he was four. Muirhouse is a suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is mostly lower class but is slowly being redeveloped to attract a His mother worked as a waitress, his father was a dock worker then a carpet salesman, who died when Welsh was 25. Welsh left Ainslie Park Secondary School when he was 16 and then completed a City and Guilds course in electrical engineering. He became an apprentice TV repairman until an electric shock persuaded him to move on to a series of other jobs. "Electrocute" redirects here For the band see Electrocute (band. He left Edinburgh for the London punk scene in 1978, where he played guitar and sang in The Pubic Lice and Stairway 13, the latter a reference to the Ibrox disaster. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles The Ibrox disaster refers to two accidents which led to major loss of life at Ibrox Stadium (formerly Ibrox Park in Glasgow, Scotland He worked for Hackney Council in London and studied computing with the support of the Manpower Services Commission. The London Borough of Hackney ( is a London borough in North-East London and forms part of Inner London. Computing is usually defined like the activity of using and developing Computer technology Computer hardware and software.

In the mid 1980s he became a minor property speculator, renovating houses in the rapidly gentrifying North London. North London is the northern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes After the London property boom of the 1980s, Welsh returned to Edinburgh where he worked for the city council in the housing department. He went on to study for an MBA at Heriot-Watt University, writing his thesis on creating equal opportunities for women. Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the eighth-oldest higher education institution in the United Kingdom, although it only received Equal opportunity is a term which has differing definitions and there is no consensus as to the precise meaning

Welsh has made several reading tours around the world and has been involved with his beloved house music as a DJ, promoter and producer. House music is a style of Electronic dance music initially popularized in mid-1980s Discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Like many of his characters, he supports Hibs. Hibernian Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Leith, in the north of Edinburgh. He met an American woman Beth Quinn, 26, when he was teaching creative writing in Chicago, and they were married in July 2005. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He considers the age gap inconsequential. 'I've never felt tied to any one age . . . I've never thought "I must find someone a couple of years younger than I am". ' Welsh was married once before, in 1984 to Anne Ansty, however they divorced after almost 20 years.

He currently lives in Dublin, Ireland. Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. In an interview with The Daily Mail on 7 August 2006, he described himself as "not so much middle-class as upper-class. The Daily Mail is a British newspaper currently published in a tabloid format Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. I'm very much a gentleman of leisure. I write. I sit and look out of my window into the garden. I enjoy books. I love the density and complexity of Jane Austen and George Eliot. Jane Austen (16 Mary Ann (Marian Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880) better known by her Pen name George Eliot, was an I listen to music; I travel. I can go off to a film festival whenever I like. " He also describes himself as monogamous: "it sounds boring but it's the way I am".

Fiction

To date, Welsh has published eight books. Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Events 1138 - Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. His first novel, Trainspotting, was published in 1993. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. Set in the mid 1980s, it uses a series of loosely connected short stories to tell the story of a group of characters tied together by decaying friendships, heroin addiction and stabs at escape from the oppressive boredom and brutality of their lives in the housing schemes. Heroin ( INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from Morphine, a derivative The term " addiction " is used in many contexts to describe an obsession compulsion or excessive Physical dependence or psychological dependence such as Boredom is an Emotional state experienced during periods of lack of activities or when individuals are uninterested in the activities surrounding them It was released to shock and outrage in some circles and massive acclaim in others; Time Out called it "funny, unflinchingly abrasive, authentic and inventive", and The Sunday Times called Welsh "the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades". Time Out is a Publishing company based in London, England. The company's best known product is the Time Out weekly listings Magazine The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. One critic (Welsh's personal friend Kevin Williamson) went so far as to say that Trainspotting "deserves to sell more copies than The Bible. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin " It was adapted as a play, and a film adaptation, directed by Danny Boyle and written by John Hodge, was released in 1996. Trainspotting is a 1996 Scottish film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956 is an English director and Film producer, best known for his work on films such as Trainspotting For the footballers see John Hodge (Scottish footballer or John Hodge (English footballer. Welsh himself appeared in the film as Mikey Forrester, a minor character. The film was a worldwide success. U.S. Senator Bob Dole decried its moral depravity and glorification of drug use during the 1996 presidential campaign, although he admitted that he had not actually seen the film (or, presumably, read the book). The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22 1923 is an attorney and retired United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996 serving part of that time A political campaign is an organized effort which seeks to influence the decision making process within a specific group

Next, Welsh released The Acid House, a collection of short stories from Rebel Inc. The Acid House is a 1994 book by Irvine Welsh, later made into a film , New Writing Scotland and other sources. Many of the stories take place in and around the housing schemes from Trainspotting, and employ many of the same themes; however, a touch of fantasy is apparent in stories such as The Acid House, where the minds of a baby and a drug user swap bodies, or The Granton Star Cause, where God transforms a man into a fly as punishment for wasting his life. God is the principal or sole Deity in Religions and other belief systems that worship one deity. True flies are Insects of the Order Diptera ( Greek: di = two and pteron = wing possessing a single pair of Welsh himself adapted three of the stories for a later film, which he also appeared in. The Acid House is a film adaptation of Irvine Welsh 's Short story collection The Acid House.

Welsh's third book (and second novel), Marabou Stork Nightmares, alternates between a typically grim tale of thugs and schemes in sub-working class Scotland and a hallucinatory adventure tale set in South Africa. Marabou Stork Nightmares is a novel by Irvine Welsh. The book's Narrative is split into two styles a conventional first person account of The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Gradually, common themes begin to emerge between the two stories, culminating in a shocking ending.

His next book, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996), became his most high-profile work since Trainspotting, released in the wave of publicity surrounding the film. Ecstasy Three Tales of Chemical Romance is a collection of three Novellas by Irvine Welsh. It consists of three unconnected novellas: the first, Lorraine Goes To Livingston, is a bawdy satire of classic British romance novels, the second, Fortune's Always Hiding, is a revenge story involving thalidomide, and the third, The Undefeated is a sly, subtle romance between a young woman dissatisfied with the confines of her suburban life and an aging clubgoer. A novella is a written, Fictional Prose Narrative longer than a Novelette but shorter than a Novel. A romance novel is a literary Genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries Thalidomide is a Sedative - Hypnotic, and Multiple myeloma Medication. Most critics dismissed the first two as relatively minor affairs and focused their praise on The Undefeated. Welsh's narration imbued both characters with surprising warmth, and the story avoided easy, pro-ecstasy conclusions. MDMA ( 34-methylenedioxy- N -methylamphetamine) most commonly known today by the street name Ecstasy (often abbreviated E, X,

A corrupt police officer and his tapeworm served as the narrators for his third novel, Filth (1998). Tapeworm is also an older name for a type of Computer virus. Cestoda is a class of Parasitic Flatworms commonly called Filth is a Novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. Plot summary The plot centres on Bruce Robertson a Scottish police officer Welsh had never avoided flawed characters, but the main character of Filth was a brutally vicious sociopathic policeman. Antisocial personality disorder ( APD) is a Mental disorder.It is defined by the American Psychiatric Association 's Diagnostic and Statistical His tapeworm was perhaps the most sympathetic character, a classic Welsh inversion.

Glue (2001) was a return to the locations, themes and episodic form of Trainspotting, telling the stories of four characters spanning several decades in their lives and the bonds that held them together. Glue is a Novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. Glue tells the stories of four Scottish boys over four decades through

Having revisited some of them in passing in Glue, Welsh brought most of the Trainspotting characters back for a sequel, Porno, in 2002. Porno is a Novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, and is the Sequel to Trainspotting. In this book Welsh explores the impact of pornography on the individuals involved in producing it, as well as society as a whole, and the impact of aging and maturity in individuals against their will.

Welsh's latest novel, The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (2006), deals with a young, alcoholic civil servant who finds himself inadvertently putting a curse on his nemesis, a nerdy co-worker. The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is the sixth Novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. In 2007, Welsh published If You Liked School You'll Love Work, his first collection of short stories in over a decade. If You Liked School You'll Love Work is a collection of short stories from novelist Irvine Welsh.

At the request of the Daily Telegraph, Welsh travelled with a group of authors and journalists to the Sudan in 2001. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia. A book called The Weekenders: Travels in the Heart of Africa was the result, to which Welsh contributed a novella called Contamination, about the violence and warlords in the region. A second book, The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta, was published in 2004. Welsh, Ian Rankin, and Alexander McCall Smith each contributed a short story for the One City compilation published in 2005 in benefit of the One City Trust for social inclusion in Edinburgh. Ian Rankin OBE, DL, (born 28 April 1960 in Cardenden, Fife) is a Scottish Crime writer. Alexander (RAA "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, (born August 24 1948 is a Zimbabwean born British Writer and

Irvine Welsh is planning to write a prequel to Trainspotting published in 2009 ^[1]

Film and stage

As well as fiction, Irvine Welsh has written several stage plays, including Headstate, You'll Have Had Your Hole, and the musical Blackpool, which featured original songs by Vic Godard of the Subway Sect. Vic Godard (born Vic Napper in Bristol, England) is a British Singer-songwriter formerly of the punk group Subway Sect Subway Sect were one of the original British punk bands whose posthumous reputation suffered due to their comparatively small output

More recently he coauthored Babylon Heights with his screenwriting partner Dean Cavanagh. Dean Cavanagh is a writer born in Cottingley Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1966 The play premiered in San Francisco at the Exit Theatre and made its European premiere in Dublin, at The Mill Theatre Dundrum where it was directed by Graham Cantwell and featured performances from actors Rachel Rath, David Heap, Dermot Magennis and John Fitzpatrick. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Overview The Mill Theatre was built during the building of the Dundrum Town Centre in order to facilitate both local and national groups wishing to perform in the area Rachel Rath is an Irish film television and theatre Actress. She has appeared in the films The Actors (2003 Laws of Attraction The plot revolves around the behind-the-scenes antics of a group of Munchkins on the set of The Wizard of Oz. Munchkins are the natives of the fictional Munchkin Country in the Oz books by L The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical - Fantasy film mainly directed by Victor Fleming and based on the 1900 children’s The production included the use of oversized sets with actors of regular stature.

Cavanagh and Welsh have also collaborated on a number of screenplays. The Meat Trade is based on the 19th century West Port murders. The Burke and Hare murders (also known as the West Port murders) Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market. Body-snatching was the secret disinterment of bodies from Churchyards to sell them for Dissection or Anatomy lectures in Medical schools

Wedding Belles, a film made for Channel 4 that was written by Welsh and Cavanaugh, aired at the end of March 2007. The film centres around the lives of four young women, who are played by Michelle Gomez, Shirley Henderson, Shauna MacDonald, and Kathleen McDermot. Michelle Gomez (born April 21, 1971 in Glasgow) is a Scottish Actress best known for her comedy roles in Green Wing Shirley Henderson (born 24 November, 1965) is an award-winning Scottish actress. Shauna MacDonald (born October 6, 1970 in Antigonish Nova Scotia) is a Canadian television and film actress and Radio Morvern Callar is a 2002 Film directed by Lynne Ramsay and starring Samantha Morton in the title role

They are also currently working on several other projects for film and television.

Welsh has directed several short films for bands. In 2001 he directed a 15 minute film for Gene's song "Is It Over" which is taken from the album Libertine. Gene were an British Alternative rock quartet who rose to prominence in the mid-1990s In 2006 he directed a short film to accompany the track "Atlantic" from Keane's album Under the Iron Sea. " Atlantic " is a song performed and composed by English Piano rock and alternative band Keane and is featured on their Keane (kiːn are an English Piano rock band, first established in Battle, East Sussex in 1995, and taking their current Under the Iron Sea is the second Studio album by English piano Rock band Keane, released in 2006

Welsh recently directed his first short dramatic film, NUTS, which he also wrote. The film features Joe McKinney as a man dealing with testicular cancer in post Celtic tiger Ireland. Not to be confused with Joe McKinney (Writer Joe McKinney is an Actor and occasional voice-over artist from Dublin. Testicular cancer is Cancer that develops in the Testicles a part of the Male reproductive system Celtic Tiger (Tíogar Ceilteach is a name for the period of rapid Economic growth in the Republic of Ireland that began in the 1990s and slowed in 2001 Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world

Film adaptation

In 2008, the film Ecstasy based on The Undefeated will be produced. Ecstasy Three Tales of Chemical Romance is a collection of three Novellas by Irvine Welsh.

Themes

Welsh is often pigeonholed as a writer whose work concentrates on recreational drug use. Recreational drug use is the use of Psychoactive drugs for Recreational purposes rather than for work, medical or spiritual purposes However, most of his fiction and non-fiction is dominated by the question of working class and Scottish identity in the period spanning the 1960s to the present day. Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. Non-fiction is an account or representation of a subject which is presented as Fact. Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Within this, he explores the rise and fall of the council housing scheme, denial of opportunity, sectarianism, football, hooliganism, sex, suppressed homosexuality, dance clubs, low-paid work, freemasonry, Irish republicanism, sodomy, class divisions, emigration, and perhaps most of all, the humour, prejudices, and axioms of the Scots. Sectarianism is Bigotry, Discrimination, Prejudice or Hatred arising from attaching importance to perceived differences between subdivisions Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. Irish republicanism (Poblachtánachas is an ideology based on the Irish nationalist belief that all of Ireland should be a single independent Republic Sodomy (ˈsɒdəmi is a term used today predominantly in Law (derived from traditional Christian usage to describe the act of Anal intercourse, Oral intercourse "Emigrant" redirects here For the Butterflies, see Catopsilia. The word prejudice refers to prejudgment making a decision before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case or event

Style

His novels share a number of characters, giving the feel of a "shared universe" within his writing. For example, characters from Trainspotting make cameo appearances in The Acid House and Marabou Stork Nightmares, and slightly larger appearances in Glue, whose characters then appear in Porno.

Irvine Welsh is known for writing in his native Edinburgh Scots dialect. Scots ( The Scots leid) refers to Anglic varieties derived from early northern Middle English spoken in parts of Scotland and Northern He generally ignores the traditional conventions of literary Scots, used for example by Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Orr. Allan Ramsay (15 October 1686—7 January 1758 was a Scottish Poet. For other uses see Bob Ferguson Robert Fergusson ( September 5, 1750 - October 16, 1774) Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796 (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850–3 December 1894 was a Scottish novelist poet and travel writer, and a representative of Neo-romanticism in James Orr (1770 &ndash 24 April 1816 was a Poet or rhyming weaver from Ulster also known as the Bard of Ballycarry, who wrote in the English Instead, he transcribes dialects phonetically, a device popularised by authors such as James Kelman and Iain Banks. James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9 1946) is an influential writer of Novels Iain Menzies Banks (born on 16 February 1954 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a Scottish Writer. Non-Scottish readers may have difficulty deciphering the language, and may miss some of the impact and references to football, sectarianism, and Scottish everyday life in his work. Sectarianism is Bigotry, Discrimination, Prejudice or Hatred arising from attaching importance to perceived differences between subdivisions For that reason, some international editions of his books have included brief glossaries at the end.

Like Alasdair Gray before him, Welsh also experiments with typography. Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934 is a Scottish writer and Artist. Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, Type design, and modifying type Glyphs Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety A notable example is the book Filth, where the tapeworm's internal monologue is imposed over the top of the protagonist's own internal monologue (the worm's host), visibly depicting the tapeworm's voracious appetite, much like the 'Climax of Voices' in Gray's novel 1982, Janine. Internal monologue, also known as inner voice, internal speech, or stream of consciousness is Thinking in Words It also refers

Bibliography

• Trainspotting (1993)
• The Acid House (1994)
• Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995)
• Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996)
• Filth (1998)
• Glue (2001)
• Porno (2002)
• The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs (2006)
• If You Liked School You'll Love Work (2007)
• Headstate
• Babylon Heights
• The Meat Trade
• You'll Have Had Your Hole (drama)
• "Dose" (half Hour BBC drama written with Dean Cavanagh)^[2]
• The Acid House (screenplay)
• Wedding Belles (2007 film for Channel 4 written with Dean Cavanagh)^[3]

References

External links

• irvinewelsh.com- extensive collection of hand picked links about Irvine Welsh
• BBC mini-bio on Welsh
• SF Interview about "Babylon Heights" play with writing partner Dean Cavanagh
• Interview with 3:AM Magazine
• SuicideGirls Inteview By Garrett Faber

Persondata
NAME	Welsh, Irvine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Scottish novelist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Edinburgh, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

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