Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh (born Leith, Edinburgh, September 27, 1961) is a Scottish novelist.

Themes

Welsh is often pigeonholed as a writer whose work concentrates on drug use. However, most of his fiction and non-fiction is dominated by the question of working class and Scottish identity in the period spanning the 60s to the present day. Within this, he explores the rise and fall of the council housing scheme, denial of opportunity, sectarianism, football, hooliganism, sex, suppressed homosexuality, dance clubs, low paid work, freemasonry, Irish republicanism, sodomy, class divisions, emigration, and perhaps most of all, the humour, prejudices and axioms of the Scottish.

Related Topics:
Drug use - Fiction - Non-fiction - 60s - Hooliganism - Homosexuality - Freemasonry - Irish republicanism - Sodomy - Emigration - Prejudice

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