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James Kelman

1946 - Today

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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. Frequently employing stream of consciousness experimentation, Kelman's stories typically feature "an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival." His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize with How Late It Was, How Late. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). James Kelman is the 6,714th most popular writer (down from 6,673rd in 2024), the 6,273rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,077th in 2019) and the 693rd most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, James Kelman ranks 6,714 out of 7,302. Before him are Hazel Brugger, Katharine Lee Bates, Pınar Selek, David Gerrold, Kinoko Nasu, and Fatou Diome. After him are Robert Seethaler, Colson Whitehead, Sara Ahmed, William Kamkwamba, Édouard Louis, and Thomas Brussig.

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Among people born in 1946, James Kelman ranks 790. Before him are Joe Kinnear, Rosanna Marani, Kitty O'Neil, Bill Plympton, Natalya Pechonkina, and Aruna Roy. After him are Sandy Duncan, Mark Metcalf, Pacita Abad, Debbi Wilkes, F. Drew Gaffney, and Allen Lanier.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Kelman ranks 6,275 out of 8,785. Before him are George K. Arthur (1899), Jack Wilshere (1992), Thomas Mitchell (1792), Ben Foster (1983), Anne Reid (1935), and Maxi Priest (1961). After him are Nick Aldis (1986), George Formby (1904), Peter Beardsley (1961), Katie Price (1978), Brooklyn Beckham (1999), and Leon Brittan (1939).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, James Kelman ranks 693. Before him are Lady Gabriella Kingston (1981), Mary Russell Mitford (1787), Ronald Firbank (1886), Jeff Noon (1957), Jane Taylor (1783), and Eric Linklater (1899). After him are Sara Ahmed (1969), Irving Finkel (1951), John Suckling (1609), Clemence Dane (1888), Victoria Hislop (1959), and Sophie Hannah (1971).

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