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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. Frequently employing stream of consciousness experimentation, Kelman's stories typically feature "an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival." His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Kelman has received more than 209,960 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). James Kelman is the 6,673rd most popular writer (down from 5,983rd in 2019), the 6,078th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,536th in 2019) and the 691st most popular British Writer.

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  • 210k

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

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  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Kelman ranks 6,673 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 6,078 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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