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Irvine Welsh – Author

Irvine Welsh – Author

The Interview vor 11 Jahren

Why is his imagination still heavily stirred by Scotland and his working-class roots?

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Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to a novelist whose fictional
world is filled with drugs, sex, sleaze and alienation. Scottish
writer Irvine Welsh draws deeply flawed characters and makes them
entertaining and all too human. His first bestseller was
Trainspotting, a tale of heroin ravaged youths from the wrong
side of Edinburgh’s tracks. His latest book returns to the same
turf. He now lives most of his life in the US, so how come his
imagination is still so heavily stirred by Scotland and his
working-class roots?

(Photo: Scottish author Irvine Welsh. Credit: Scott Barbour/Getty
Images)