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Guardian: Olympic torch route, day 21: Glasgow won't stand on ceremony for the flame

[The Guardian] - James Kelman, Janice Galloway, Bernard MacLaverty, Alasdair Gray, Denise Mina, Jeff Torrington … I really could go on. Anyone with an enthusiasm for new bands, country and western, folk, jazz, curry, seafood, tearooms, art galleries or strolls in the

Interview: Alan Warner, author of The Deadman's Pedal

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[Scotsman] - “It was and I had been reading James Kelman's The Busconductor Hines. The reason great writers are great is that they make complex things look simple, so when I read that I thought, 'Oh this is all you do, you just explain your job'.

Guardian: A life in writing: Alan Warner

[The Guardian] - Scottish literature has flourished so much in the three decades since that disbelieving Oban moment, thanks to Gray, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, AL Kennedy, Andrew O'Hagan, Iain Banks, Ali Smith, Kathleen Jamie, and others too numerous to mention

Our swear words have been devalued by overuse – but not because teenagers are ...

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[Telegraph.co.uk (blog)] - This, you may say, is exemplified by many passages in a James Kelman novel, in which the f-word has no force because it seems only as significant as a nervous tic. It's just the way Kelman characters and many people in real life speak.

Guardian: Literary events in 2012

[The Guardian] - Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman (Hamish Hamilton). A master of Scottish dialect, Kelman has inhabited the consciousness of men of all ages. Now he takes us through 24 hours in the life of a young woman. The Truth by Michael Palin (Weidenfeld).

Top new book releases to indulge in for the start of 2012

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[Metro] - James Kelman offers another sizzlingly surreal-sounding novel with Mo Said She Was Quirky ( Hamish Hamilton, July), which recounts 24 hours in the life of an ordinary woman. And book club favourite Marina Lewycka returns with Various Pets Alive And

The Literary Year 2012

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[Telegraph.co.uk] - Similarly hip and pacy is Booker-nominated James Kelman's Mo Said She Was Quirky (Hamish Hamilton), a race through 24 hours in the life of an ordinary young woman. And don't forget the latest offering by Lionel Shriver, The New Republic (HarperCollins)

James Kelman bites the hand that feeds him | The Times

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Scotland habitually demands that ‘London’ pay attention, then complains it cannot understand

Review: Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman | Books |...

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HAVING won the Booker Prize in for his novel How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman opened the door for a whole generation of Scottish novelists...

Guardian: James Kelman | Books | The Guardian

The author James Kelman has asked us make it clear that, contrary to what we said in Scotland's red rebellion, page 2, Saturday Review, July 14, he is not a member of ...

V S Naipaul, James Kelman nominated for Man Booker International...

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Nobel laureate Sir Vidia Naipaul and the left wing Scottish novelist James Kelman are among 14 writers nominated for the prestigious Man Booker International...

Highly literary and deeply vulgar: If James Kelman's Booker novel is...

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JAMES KELMAN's victory in the Booker Prize on Tuesday night has already provoked a not altogether polite discussion

James Kelman: London publishers are "elitist" and don't get Scotland...

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FOR MORE than 40 years his work has helped build a unique and distinctive voice for Scottish literature and is feted around the world.

Edinburgh James Kelman - Books and Writing - ABC Radio...

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Ramona Koval talks to the angry man of Scottish Literature, James Kelman. This Glaswegian Booker prize-winner has been a major, influential and controversial...

James Kelman on On Self-Determination | Celtic News Now

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By James Kelman In an American journal I read a prominent English writer was described as 'very British'. What can it mean to be 'very British...

Dirt Road by James Kelman | Saturday Review | The Times

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Dirt Road is easily summarised. A Scottish family is shattered by the nearly simultaneous death of mother and daughter from cancer.

Guardian: James Kelman: 'Why is my work so upsetting for people?' | Books | The...

The former Booker winner on why he often finds his critics' views unfair, and why swearing is an integral part of his work

If It Is Your Life by James Kelman: review - Telegraph

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If It Is Your Life by James Kelman is a collection of varied stories that vary in quality too, says David Robson

James Kelman: Borderline insanity | The Independent

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James Kelman looks refreshed when we meet in the café of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Dressed in a smart, black suit, he's pleased to be home...

Review: That Was a Shiver and Other Stories, by James Kelman |...

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That Was a Shiver and Other Stories

Asbestos victims treatment is a scandal says James Kelman | Evening...

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BOOKER prize winning author, James Kelman, has branded the treatment of victims of asbestos related illness “shocking” and “shameful”.

Guardian: Mo Said She Was Quirky by James Kelman – review | Books | The Guardian

James Kelman's pursuit of verisimilitude saps his writing of any vitality, says Adam Mars-Jones

If It Is Your Life by James Kelman: review - Telegraphwww.telegraph.co.uk › culture › books › bookreviews › I...

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The men telling the stories in James Kelman's new collection are – as tends to be the case – perplexed Glaswegians with precarious ...

James Kelman: Look back in anger | The Independentwww.independent.co.uk › Culture › Books › Features

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James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946, the son of a picture-framer and restorer. He left school at 15 and has lived in the US briefly, when ...

Day of the Imprisoned Writer with James Kelman

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Join Man Booker Prize winner James Kelman and other prominent Scottish writers at the Scottish Poetry Library. Remembering the dissenting voices imprisoned ...

James Kelman: Imperialist English are 'in control' of Scottish arts -...

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The English are “in control” of Scottish culture despite their “imperialist” attitudes meaning they do not understand life north of...

The shunning of James Kelman: how strange it is, how ...www.heraldscotland.com › opinion › the-sh...

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Remember when James Kelman walked up to accept the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year award and proceeded to criticise the literary ...

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