WRITER

James Kelman

1946 - Today

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James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working class narrators and their labyrinthine struggles with authority or social interactions, mostly set in his home city of Glasgow. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Kelman has received more than 206,378 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). James Kelman is the 6,672nd most popular writer (down from 5,983rd in 2019), the 6,075th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,536th in 2019) and the 691st most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

You have to be careful in the land of the free
Literature, Aliens, Fiction
Jeremiah Brown is a man of extremes.So when he nips out for a quick drink on the eve of returning to his native Scotland after twelve years in America, anything could happen. Anything at all. Just one quick drink to help him sleep but there's something about this town and this bar that reminds him of his ex. Soon the memories are flooding in and as the night goes on and the decision to stop smoking looks increasingly ill-timed for a card-carrying alien of questionable politics, Jeremiah getting on that flight tomorrow starts to seem far from certain. Is there any such thing as a certainty? Not tonight. Tonight the only thing certain is that you have to be very careful in the land of the free.
2004
How late it was, how late
Blind, Ex-convicts, Fiction
1994
A disaffection
1989
Greyhound for breakfast
Fiction, Social life and customs
1987
Translated accounts
Military occupation, Military government, Fiction
2001
Not not while the giro
1983

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Kelman ranks 6,672 out of 7,302. Before him are Mark Van Doren, Padma Sachdev, Walter Mosley, Muhsin al-Ramli, Tim Kring, and Leonard Maltin. After him are Wladimir Kaminer, Gertrude Atherton, Ed Bradley, Ann Scott, Pat Cadigan, and Bayard Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, James Kelman ranks 789. Before him are Mike Beebe, Allen Lanier, Joe Kinnear, Rosanna Marani, Mark Metcalf, and Sandy Duncan. After him are Allan Clarke, Bob Seagren, Felicity Kendal, Mel Martínez, Paul Herman, and Manfred Stengl.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Kelman ranks 6,075 out of 8,785. Before him are Simon Curtis (1960), Julien Temple (1953), N. T. Wright (1948), Phil Thompson (1954), Jeff Rawle (1951), and Aiden Shaw (1966). After him are William Dod (1867), Miguel Sapochnik (1974), Tom Robinson (1950), Jenna Coleman (1986), Edward Dickinson Baker (1811), and Carlo Rota (1961).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, James Kelman ranks 691. Before him are Mary Russell Mitford (1787), Frederick Denison Maurice (1805), Sheila Jeffreys (1948), Victoria Hislop (1959), Rose Tremain (1943), and Catherine Cookson (1906). After him are Clemence Dane (1888), Thomas Shadwell (1642), Nicholas Monsarrat (1910), Elizabeth Carter (1717), Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802), and David Hare (1947).

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