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Born in glasgow in 1946, james kelman left school at fifteen to begin an apprenticeship as a compositor where he became sensitised to the look of words on the page, which was followed by periods of work and unemployment and a brief spell in the usa. He went on to win the booker prize five years later with how late it was, how late, before being shortlisted for the man booker international prize in 2009 and 2011. Apr 24, 2008 james meek writes the opening story in james kelmans 1998 collection, the good times, is called joe laughed. Only a country as disunited as the united kingdom could produce a phenomenon like james kelman. The narrator of kieron smith, boy starts his story in a tenement flat in glasgow on the south side of the.
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