Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh was born in 1958 in Leith, Edinburgh's port, in a council block. He left school at sixteen, worked as a television repairman, went to London at the time of punk, lived there by his wits, came back, joined the housing administration and wrote in the evenings. He published his first book at thirty-five. He has signed some twenty since, almost all set in the same streets and often with the same characters.

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• NovelTrainspottingIrvine Welsh · 1993Literature