James Kelman
Scottish novelist whose How Late It Was, How Late won the Booker Prize despite controversy over its use of Glaswegian vernacular. His fiction gives uncompromising voice to the dispossessed of working-class Scotland. He is the most politically radical voice in contemporary Scottish literature.
Works
- How Late It Was, How LateA blind man's interior monologue narrates his struggle with independence and isolation
- The Busconductor HinesA Glasgow bus conductor navigates work, romance, and existential ennui through working-class life
- A DisaffectionA schoolteacher's disillusionment unfolds through fractured narrative and stream-of-consciousness
- Translated AccountsFragmented accounts of political transformation and journeys across multiple languages and cultures
- Mo Said She Was Quirky