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	Powells.com Interviews - Irvine Welsh
		Indeed, it's a sprawling canvas, and Welsh explores its reaches to show the often brutish, brass exteriors of his protagonists against the subtler nuances of their friendship and aging.
		Funny and real as ever (the first scene Welsh wrote about them documents a hilarious argument about foreskin), the novel is by turns tender, sexy, violent, and disturbing - "a fully realized vision of the world," Salon.com called it - arguably the author of Trainspotting's most impressive work to date.
		Welsh: I wrote Marabou Stork Nightmares because of the zero tolerance stuff that was going on with violence against women.
	www.powells.com /authors/welsh.html (3018 words)

	Splendid: Departments: Bookshelf: Irvine Welsh's 'Porno' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Welsh may be one of the most widely read authors of today, but there's nothing in this book that warrants a position among the real top names out there.
		Welsh's writing is engaging and witty, but far too inconsequential and safe to really grab the listener and to challenge his or her conceptions.
		Her story leaves room for quite a lot of the kind of urban street drama that Welsh normally excels in, but Nikki remains one of the novel's least convincing characters, and her chapters are some of the book's least satisfactory parts.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/bookshelf/bookshelf12703.html (1121 words)

	Irvine Welsh
		Welsh's name will be forever associated with his first novel, Trainspotting, which became an instant sensation when it was published in 1993.
		Drawing on his own formative experiences in his native Edinburgh and London, it presents an authentic and unrelenting episodic portrait of as unforgettable a collection of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter.
		Welsh's subsequent novels and short stories failed to attract the same critical success as his debut although its belated sequel, Porno, was hailed as a return to form.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/IrvineWelsh (122 words)

	Irvine Welsh
		Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh in 1958.
		If Welsh really is managing to engage a culturally illiterate audience that has traditionally remained beyond the influence of the bourgeois novel then this is a form of ‘cultural activism’ most other ‘writers’ of his generation seem to have turned their backs on.
		Welsh’s latest novel, Porno (2002) is a return to the fictional world of Trainspotting that made him famous a decade earlier, and has been hailed by many critics as a return to form.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth120 (1313 words)

	Welsh attacked for 'misogynist' sex scene \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Irvine Welsh, creator of the heroin-consuming characters Begbie, Renton, Sick Boy and Spud in his debut novel Trainspotting, has been accused of misogyny in his latest work.
		Welsh was speaking at the Edinburgh international book festival, one of the star turns on the opening day of the fortnight-long event in his home city, when he was rounded on by a number of women in the audience.
		Welsh rejected the accusation: "I find it strange that you use the word misogynist when it is Mary who is taking Skinner for her own sexual pleasure.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,,1844091,00.html (479 words)

	Irvine Welsh Summary
		Irvine Welsh (born Leith, Edinburgh, September 27 1958) is a Scottish novelist.
		Early life Irvine Welsh was born in Leith and moved with his family to Muirhouse, in Edinburgh, when he was four.
		According to Turner, Welsh's strengths as a writer are his unromantic realism about the life of the body and his ear for the slang of his working-class characters.
	www.bookrags.com /Irvine_Welsh (303 words)

	Welsh, Irvine Criticism and Essays
		Welsh's debut novel, Trainspotting (1993), won popular acclaim for its authenticity and critical praise for its inventive language and use of Scottish vernacular.
		Welsh was born in 1958 in Leith, a poor neighborhood in Edinburgh, Scotland.
		Welsh, however, asserts that he is a writer for the general public, not the critics or reviewers.
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/welsh-irvine (969 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Irvine Welsh & Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		A NEW film from author Irvine Welsh described as the "all-female Trainspotting" is being shot this...
		IRVINE Welsh, the Scottish author, has denied claims that he has abandoned his working-class roots...
		IRVINE Welsh's new play about the private lives of the Munchkin characters from The Wizard of Oz...
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=523 (472 words)

	3am Interview: LITERARY SPARRING: AN INTERVIEW WITH IRVINE WELSH
		Welsh had convinced the assailants of his Scottish nationality, through the memory of the Buchanan/Duran bout, a lucky break, an escape from the ropes.
		Welsh does have thoughts on the cultural drift in the new, devolved Scotland, on the continuing clash between the forces of Scotland's conservative elites and modern realism.
		Clearly, Irvine Welsh is still holding the title in his career as a top rank writer.
	www.3ammagazine.com /litarchives/2004/feb/interview_irvine_welsh.html (1413 words)

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		Welsh, 44, burst onto the literary scene in 1993 with his first novel, "Trainspotting." This initial snippet of fleshy dialogue is true to Welsh's form: the voices of working-class Scottish youth belying a deeper discourse.
		Welsh's extra-curricular interests, as well as a series of novels that failed to recapture the meteoric attention of "Trainspotting," have caused some critics to wonder if Welsh will be an enduring writer or a one-hit wonder.
		According to Welsh, the Glasgow school was primarily concerned with advancing the cause of socialism in an age when it was no longer realistic.
	www.flakmag.com /features/welsh.html (1268 words)

	Amazon.ca: Glue: Books: Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In fact, the glue of Welsh's book deals with the bonds that unite four boys growing up together in "the scheme", the "slum-clearance" flats of Edinburgh, whose optimistic construction in the 1970s give way to the poverty, unemployment and crime of the 1980s and 1990s.
		Welsh's prose is sometimes coarse and sometimes surprisingly introspective as he describes the introduction of new technologies into factories and contemplates changing mores in Scotland.
		Welsh is the best writer I know of for putting the reader into the mind of the characters.
	www.amazon.ca /Glue-Irvine-Welsh/dp/0099285924 (1327 words)

	Undiscovered Scotland: Bookshop: Irvine Welsh
		The glue of Welsh's book deals with the bonds that unite four boys growing up together in the "slum-clearance" flats of Edinburgh, whose optimistic construction in the 1970s give way to the poverty, unemployment and crime of the 1990s.
		With bitter passion and rancid humour, Welsh lays bare the lives of this ill-starred bunch of addicts, alcoholics and no-hopers.
		Irvine Welsh delivers another grisly yet enthralling insight into the mindset of the Scottish underclass in Marabou Stork Nightmares.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbookshop/usbs-irvinewelsh.html (467 words)

	Ron McKay: the real Irvine Welsh? \| Review \| The Observer
		When he was a nipper, Welsh's family moved to a maisonette along the coast at Muirhouse, a 1960s perimeter housing estate that became awash with heroin in the early Eighties.
		Welsh, he continues, has been criticised for lacking any moral context in his work by 'people who believe that there must be a moral and ethical base which thwarts the desperation of not being able to bear your own reality'.
		Irvine Welsh summers in Amsterdam and winters at his new home in Dunfermline (a kind of Croydon with slag heaps).
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,772792,00.html (1325 words)

	Amazon.ca: Trainspotting: Books: Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness.
		Irvine Welsh the author has successfully disappeared - if his skag boys are his "mouthpieces", then he's completely hidden that fact.
		Irvine Welsh's classic first novel which spawned a play and a critically acclaimed film is now available in the US in hardback, with a great non-film oriented dust jacket.
	www.amazon.ca /Trainspotting-Irvine-Welsh/dp/0393057240 (1609 words)

	Irvine Welsh - Welcome
		This is the official website of Irvine Welsh, an acclaimed and often controversial writer of novels, stories and stage and screenplays.
		Welsh comes from Edinburgh, Scotland, and lives with his American wife Elizabeth, mainly in Dublin, Ireland and Miami Beach, Florida.
		Irvine Welsh's first collection of short stories since The Acid House is out now.
	www.irvinewelsh.net (342 words)

	Irvine Welsh: The Man
		Irvine Welsh was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he grew up in a "scheme" or housing project outside the city.
		Norton introduced Irvine Welsh to American readers in May, 1995, with The Acid House, his second book, a collection of short stories and a novella set in the underworld of British drifters, dopers, thieves, killers, maniacs, sex fiends and losers.
		Trainspotting was made into a box office smash the same year and established Welsh as "the voice of a generation" (Jenifer Berman, Bomb) and "the hottest and probably the best of a new, distinct, and talented generation of writers currently emerging in Britain" (James Lasdun, The Village Voice).
	www.wwnorton.com /irvinewelsh/man.htm (344 words)

	Amazon.de: Porno: English Books: Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Now Welsh introduces us to a new development: the novel’s Sick Girl, Nicola Fuller-Smith, the object of Sick Boy's fevered lust, whom he also believes will be his passport to all kinds of substance-abusing happiness – needless to say, he’s in for a rude awakening.
		Porno, Irvine Welsh's highly entertaining--though completely unnecessary--sequel to his cult classic, Trainspotting, reunites the gang as they pursue another big-payoff scheme.
		Welsh's brutally honest prose and gallery of likeable ne'er-do-wells are in full display here, but the novel feels somewhat superfluous.
	www.amazon.de /Porno-Irvine-Welsh/dp/022406181X (1067 words)

	Irvine Welsh: the unofficial site
		Five novels later Welsh is still doing his substance-abuse-in-Edinburgh shtick, but it has become a meaningless brand — look carefully and you can almost see the TM symbol — emptied of all authenticity, forced and false.
		Welsh's UK publishers Random House have put together a site to celebrate the publication of Porno, featuring an interview with Welsh, an extract, a competition and more.
		Hear Welsh read a passage in which Juice Terry is working as a window cleaner and enters the hotel room of a famous American singer to eat her club sandwich.
	www.irvinewelsh.com (2773 words)

	The Princeton Sentinel
		Welsh skillfully explores the empty hearts and souls of Generation X, and points to a way of dispelling their apathy and nihilism, a way of returning this world’s youth to decent society.
		Welsh’s characters all have a common thread — their rejection of the bourgeois political and economic order as meaningless.
		Welsh portrays him — be he Dave Thornton or Franco Begbie — as drawn ineluctably to violence.
	www.princeton.edu /~sentinel/nov96/ecstasy.html (2967 words)

	'Irvine Welsh' by Aaron Kelly reviewed on the official website of writer, Laura Hird
		Irvine Welsh Not the New Jane Austen Shocker
		“Welsh’s subversion of the novel’s standard language is neatly illustrated in Bakhtin’s terms: ‘authoritative discourse permits no play with the context framing it, no play with its borders, no gradual and flexible transitions, no spontaneously creative stylizing variants on it’.
		Which is a shame because Welsh, at his best, can be screamingly funny (‘Disnae Matter’, from ‘The Acid House’, has to be one of the best and funniest short stories/monologues ever written), an incredible writer of colloquial dialogue and even starkly poignant upon rare occasion.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/irvinewelsh.html (1823 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Irvine Welsh has just written his eighth book and is about to make his directorial debut.
		No, we're in the world of Irvine Welsh, where coarseness, sexual depravity, intoxicants and violence are par for the course.
		Welsh was keen for he and Cavanagh's play to have its "laboratory" period away from the "Groucho Club luvvies" of London, he sniffs over a beer in the pokey theatre's makeshift bar.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/features/article1195801.ece (2478 words)

	"Porno" by Irvine Welsh - Salon
		That would be a mistake, because Welsh writes some of the nimblest comedies around.
		Welsh's characters are a pack of solipsistic misfits, screw-ups and scammers, forever in pursuit of daft projects and concocting improbable rackets, the intricacies of which Welsh weaves together to hilarious effect.
		The "Trainspotting" gang may be in their 30s now, but they're reluctant to grow up even as they bang their shins against life's limitations and disappointments.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/10/10/welsh/index.html (812 words)

	Amazon.fr : Porno: Livres en anglais: Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		To boost the hormonal rush of the narrative, Welsh tells the story from different points of view, the thickness of the dialect varying convincingly from voice to voice (English Nikki quotes from Middlemarch, while the nearly incomprehensible Begbie says things like "Ah lits um go tae git the bat wi baith hands").
		As has been noted many times, Welsh has an uncanny talent for dialogue, and his writing is often diamond sharp (a sexual encounter is described as "raging bull and mad cow get on board the love boat").
		If this follow-up feels less urgent than the original, it is no reflection on Welsh, but rather on the growing familiarity of the terrain he has so inimitably staked out.
	www.amazon.fr /Porno-Irvine-Welsh/dp/0393057232 (790 words)

	Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Welsh's popularity on the North American continent has been a source of perplexity for three years now.
		At the same time, his work has been panned with malice aforethought by hacks the length and breadth of this continent, whom obviously became incensed and frustrated at their lack of understanding of foreign accents.
		His writing is documentary in style, a gritty, low-light photo of a generation of losers who've not a clue where they're going except that it's higher.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/students/VOX/Books/welsh1.htm (545 words)

	Welsh Irvine - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Welsh Irvine - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Welsh, Irvine (1961-), Scottish cult novelist and short-story writer whose books, which combine urban realism and fantasy, have crossed over into...
		Alasdair Gray’s presentation of Glasgow was complemented by the works of his younger friend, James Kelman, who invented a style of narration that...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Welsh_Irvine.html (100 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Porno: Books: Irvine Welsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Welsh fans need not hesitate: this is every bit as exuberant, hilarious, disgusting and irresistible as its predecessor.--Barry Forshaw --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
		Porno for me was irvine welsh's best book,from start to finish it was what we have come to expect from welsh plenty of drugs,sex and violence.Trainspotting and glue were exceptional but porno confirms to me that irvine welsh is britains top fictional writer
		The book will lack a certain something without the knowledge of the stars and the style of reading may not be worth the effort for a bunch of people you have no affinity with.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Porno-Irvine-Welsh/dp/0099422468 (1434 words)

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