James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright. He was born in Glasgow in 1946 and left school in 1961, moving around and passing through Los Angeles for a brief period in the mid-1960s then in various jobs in various places in England. He started writing at the age of twenty-one: ramblings, musings, sundry phantasmagoria, stories, whatever.Kelman's literary awards include the Cheltenham Prize for Literature (1987), James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1989) and the Booker Prize (1994).

‘Kieron Smith, boy is one more in a line of uncompromising, honest, passionate, radical and perfectly crafted books from a writer who has not given up on the questions of freedom and justice.’ Sean O’Reilly, Stinging Fly

James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright. He was born in Glasgow in 1946 and left school in 1961, moving around and passing through Los Angeles for a brief period in the mid-1960s then in various jobs in various places in England. He started writing at the age of twenty-one: ramblings, musings, sundry phantasmagoria, stories, whatever.Kelman's literary awards include the Cheltenham Prize for Literature (1987), James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1989) and the Booker Prize (1994).

‘Kieron Smith, boy is one more in a line of uncompromising, honest, passionate, radical and perfectly crafted books from a writer who has not given up on the questions of freedom and justice.’ Sean O’Reilly, Stinging Fly

James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright. He was born in Glasgow in 1946 and left school in 1961, moving around and passing through Los Angeles for a brief period in the mid-1960s then in various jobs in various places in England. He started writing at the age of twenty-one: ramblings, musings, sundry phantasmagoria, stories, whatever.Kelman's literary awards include the Cheltenham Prize for Literature (1987), James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1989) and the Booker Prize (1994).

‘Kieron Smith, boy is one more in a line of uncompromising, honest, passionate, radical and perfectly crafted books from a writer who has not given up on the questions of freedom and justice.’ Sean O’Reilly, Stinging Fly