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OverviewAI-generated
Irvine Welsh is a British writer, screenwriter, novelist, and playwright. Born in Leith, Edinburgh, he holds United Kingdom citizenship and writes in English. His professional career began in 1993, and he has worked in the fields of prose and drama. Welsh has been based in Scotland, Chicago, and Miami. He was educated at Heriot-Watt University and cites Louis-Ferdinand Céline and William S. Burroughs as influences.
His notable work includes *Trainspotting*. Other listed works include *Seal Club 2*, *Seal Club*, *Eḳsṭazi*, *Asid haʾus*, and *Resolution*. Welsh has been associated with Creation Records. His writing has been referenced by 357 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 27 September 1958
- Works
- 86
Top works
- Seal Club 2
- Seal Club
- Eḳsṭazi
- Asid haʾus
- Resolution
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Irvine Welsh (born September 27, 1958) is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His 1993 novel Trainspotting was made into a film of the same name. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films.
Known for
- Britain's Murder Map with Vicky McClure and Jonny Owen — Self2026
- Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough — Self2025
- Simple Minds: Everything Is Possible — Self2025
- Dick Dynamite: 1944 — Mikael Leznik2024
- Underdog: The Andy Swallow Story — Self2024
- Loaded: Lads, Mags & Mayhem — Self2024
- I Am Weekender — Self2023
- Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh — Self2023
- Icons of Football — Self - Interviewed Guest2023
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg — Self – Playwright and author2022
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,017
- Total plays
- 5,669
Irvine Welsh (born Leith, Edinburgh on September 27, 1958) is an acclaimed contemporary Scottish novelist, most famous for his novel "Trainspotting". He has also written plays and screenplays, as well as directing several short films. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Irvine+Welsh">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,640x
- The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data
· 2018 · cited 9,016x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,992x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,183x
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Quotes
- “You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.”
- “Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.”
- “That beats any meat injection … that beats any fuckin cock in the world … Ali gasps, completely serious. It unnerves us tae the extent that ah feel ma ain genitals through ma troosers tae see if they're still thair.”
- “"We are all acquaintances now". It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.”
- “The rhetorical question, the stock-in-trade weapon ay burds and psychos.”
- “Funny scene, likesay, how aw the psychos seem tae ken each other, ken what ah means, likes?”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- 27 September 1958 ( 1958-09-27 ) (age 67), Leith , Edinburgh , Scotland
- Occupation
- Writer
- Alma mater
- Heriot-Watt University (MBA)
- Genre
- Novel, play, short story
- Literary movement
- Postmodern literature
- Notable works
- Trainspotting (1993), The Acid House (1994), Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995), Filth (1998), Glue (2001), Porno (2002), Skagboys (2012), A Decent Ride (2015)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Occupation
- film director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Record label
- Creation Records
- Image
- Irvine Welsh 2024 i109.jpg
- Work location
- Miami
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- Commons category
- Irvine Welsh
- date of birth
- 1958-09-00
- influenced by
- William S. Burroughs
- name in native language
- Irvine Welsh
- start of work period
- 1993-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- P12674
- Brookhaven
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His novels and short stories, which almost always take place in his native Scotland, are known for their gritty depictions of working-class life and its intricacies; particularly drug addiction, social alienation, lack of opportunity and boredom, amongst others.
He is best known for his 1993 debut novel Trainspotting, which was adapted into a film of the same name; both were highly acclaimed and have become cult classics in their respective mediums. The novel was ranked 7th in a 2016 public poll of the best Scottish novels of all time, while its film adaptation was named the best Scottish film of all time in an equivalent 2004 poll.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Irvine Welsh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.