James Kelman

James Kelman was born on 9 June 1946 in Glasgow, the son of a picture framer, and left school at fifteen to take up an apprenticeship. He works in a factory, on buses, on building sites, spends a time in the United States with his family, comes back. He begins to write at twenty-two, joins a writing workshop in his city in 1971 and publishes his first collection of short stories in 1983, at thirty-seven. His stories follow the inner journey of working-class narrators in conflict with authority. He lives in Glasgow.

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• NovelHow Late It Was, How LateJames Kelman · 1994Literature