Irvine Welsh ( Eng. Irvine Welsh ; September 27, 1958 , Edinburgh , Scotland ) - Scottish writer, author of the acclaimed novel "On the Needle . " Often the heroes of his works are marginals and typical representatives of the Edinburgh working class, and the works themselves are replete with black humor , social satire and various Scottish dialectisms .
| Irwin Welch | |
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| Irvine welsh | |
 Irwin Welch Presents Porno , Warsaw, March 13, 2006 | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Citizenship |  United Kingdom |
| Occupation | novelist , playwright |
| Years of creativity | 1993 - present time |
| Direction | postmodernism |
| Genre | novel, play, story |
| Language of Works | English |
| Debut | "On the needle" |
Welsh's works have been repeatedly filmed - the films “On the Needle” and “Dirt” became most famous.
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Bibliography
- 2.1 Novels
- 2.2 Storybooks
- 2.3 Scripts and plays
- 3 Films
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Welsh was born on September 27, 1958 in Lita , a port suburb of Edinburgh . At the age of four, he moved with his parents to Edinburgh, where after school he graduated from the specialty “electrician”. He worked as an apprentice technician on television, but after an electric shock was forced to change jobs. In 1978, twenty-year-old Welsh went to London, where he played the guitar and sang in the punk bands The Pubic Lice and Stairway 13. After a series of arrests for minor disturbances in public order and conditional imprisonment for an act of vandalism, Welsh decided to change his lifestyle. He got a job at the Hackney District Administration and studied programming. In the mid-1980s, during the construction boom in North London, Welch was a real estate agent, preparing houses for sale. He soon returned to Edinburgh, where he received a computer science degree from Heriot Watt University .
In the early 1990s, Welch began writing. His first novel, “On the Needle” (1993), is a black humorous narrative about the everyday life of Edinburgh's young drug addicts in the late 1980s. This is pretty much an autobiographical book. He spent his youth among drug addicts and became the only one among his company who survived the AIDS epidemic . In 1996, Denny Boyle made the film of the same name based on the novel. The soundtrack to the tape, which included the compositions of the Primal Scream group, became popular.
After that, Welch wrote a number of books, becoming one of the most popular writers in the counterculture genre. The popularity of Welsh's work in Russia and the West is largely due to descriptions of drug use. , but the focus of his works, both artistic and documentary, is a description of the life of Scotland since the 1960s. This area includes consideration of the problems of this generation: housing reforms, unemployment, low-paid work, drug addiction. Other topics covered include slang, dialect, local traditions, rave, football hooliganism, sex, suppressed homosexuality, class differences, emigration.
The second novel by Irwin Welsh “The Marabou Stork’s Nightmares” ( English Marabou Stork Nightmares , 1995) secured him the fame of a talented writer. He has withstood five editions (by 2004) and has been translated into several languages of the world. In 1996, the Acid House short story collection was published, based on three stories from which the picture of the same name was shot ( English The Acid House , 1998). In 1996, the Ecstasy compilation was published, which included three short stories on chemical drugs. Since then Welsh is called [ who? ] "Singer of the chemical generation." In 2002, Welch published a peculiar continuation of “On the Needle” - the novel “Porn”. From time to time, Welch writes articles for The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian . In 2008, his film “Meat Trading” was released, for which he wrote a script co-authored with Dean Cavana .
Bibliography
Novels
- On the Needle / Trainspotting (1993)
- Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995)
- Shit / Filth (1998)
- Glue / Glue (2001)
- Porno / Porno (2002)
- The Secret Secrets of the Master Chefs (2006)
- Crime (2008)
- Heroes / Skagboys (2012)
- The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (2014)
- Dull Ride / A Decent Ride (2015)
- Living Carving / The Blade Artist (2016)
- Dead Men's Trousers (2018)
Storybooks
- Acid House (1994)
- Ecstasy : Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996)
- Hard to learn, easy to fight / If You Liked School You'll Love Work (2007)
- Prefabricated hodgepodge / Reheated Cabbage (2009)
Scripts and Pieces
- And there is a hole for you / You'll Have Had Your Hole (play, 1998)
- Acid House (movie script, 1998)
- Dockers (TV script, 1999)
- Dose / Dose (Telescript, 2003)
- Babylon Heights / Babylon Heights (play, 2006)
- Nuts Babes (Telescript, 2007)
- Good darts / Good Arrows (movie script, 2009)
- Eleven Magnificent (Screenplay, 2013)
Films
- 1996 - On the Needle ( Trainspotting )
- 1998 - Acid House
- 2011 - Ecstasy ( Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy )
- 2013 - Mud ( Filth )
- 2017 - Needle 2 ( Trainspotting 2 )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 115629394 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database - 1995.
- ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/11/irvinewelsh
Links
- Official site of Irwin Welch
- hand rolled news and links
- Irwin Welch at www.contemporarywriters.com
- Irwin Welch on the Internet Movie Database
- Irwin Welch: "Intoxication is part of life." Interview to Rolling Stone Magazine