James Kelman Libros Populares

James Kelman Biografía y Hechos

James Kelman (Glasgow, 9 de junio de 1946) es un novelista, cuentista, dramaturgo y ensayista escocés. Su novela A Disaffection fue preseleccionada para el Booker Prize y ganó el James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction en 1989.[1]​ Kelman ganó el Booker Prize 1994 con How Late It Was, How Late. En 1998, Kelman recibió el premio Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland. Su novela de 2008, Kieron Smith, Boy, ganó los dos principales premios literarios de Escocia: el Libro del Año de la Sociedad Saltire y el Libro del Año del Scottish Arts Council.[2]​ Primeros años Nacido en Glasgow, Kelman dice.[3]​ Durante la década de 1970 publicó una primera colección de cuentos. Se involucró en el grupo de escritura creativa de Philip Hobsbaum en Glasgow junto con Tom Leonard, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Aonghas MacNeacail y Jeff Torrington y sus cuentos comenzaron a aparecer en revistas. Estas historias introdujeron un estilo distintivo, expresando monólogos internos en primera persona en una prosa simplificada utilizando patrones de habla de Glasgow, aunque evitando en su mayor parte la interpretación cuasi fonética de Tom Leonard. El estilo de desarrollo de Kelman ha influido en la siguiente generación de novelistas escoceses, incluidos Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner y Janice Galloway. En 1998, Kelman recibió el premio Stakis al "Escritor escocés del año" por su colección de cuentos The Good Times.[5]​ Puntos de vista políticos y activismo Se ha descrito que el trabajo de Kelman fluye "no solo por ser un escritor comprometido, sino también como un activista cultural y político". En el momento del Año de Glasgow como Ciudad de la Cultura, se destacó en el grupo de la Ciudad de los Trabajadores, crítico de las celebraciones. El nombre fue elegido para llamar la atención sobre el cambio de nombre de parte del centro de la ciudad como Merchant City, que describieron como una promoción de la "falacia de que Glasgow de alguna manera existe debido a (...) empresarios del siglo XVIII y políticos con visión de futuro.[6]​ Kelman participó en el Centro de Trabajadores Desempleados de Edimburgo, dando un discurso en su inauguración, y ha expresado su apoyo al Centro Autónomo de Edimburgo (ACE), su organización sucesora. Kelman ha sido un destacado activista, especialmente en cuestiones de justicia social y causas tradicionales de izquierda, aunque decididamente no es un partidario y sigue siendo en su corazón un anarquista socialista libertario, diciendo que "los partidos parlamentarios de oposición son esenciales para la política aparato de este país que está diseñado para arrestar a la justicia ".[8]​ En 1990 Kelman participó en una noche de lecturas internacionales en prosa en la novena Feria Internacional del Libro de Libros Radicales Negros y del Tercer Mundo, luego se unió al comité organizador de la Feria del Libro y estableció la Feria Escocesa del Libro de Libros Radicales Negros y del Tercer Mundo asociada, que se celebró en 1990. Glasgow, 1993 y 1995. Kelman vive en Glasgow con su esposa e hijos, aunque también ha vivido en Londres, Manchester, las Islas del Canal, Australia y Estados Unidos..[9]​[10]​ Referencias. Descubre los libros populares de James Kelman. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de James Kelman

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  • Leporello sinopsis y comentarios

    Leporello

    William Palmer

    Don Giovanni di Tenario, lives on in the memory of his servant Leporello. In Leporello's tale, the Don escapes his summons to Hell and master and servant travel through the cou...

  • Human Punk sinopsis y comentarios

    Human Punk

    John King

    For fifteenyearold Martin, growing up in Slough, the summer of 1977 means punk rock, reggae music, disco girls, stolen cars, socialclub lager, cutthroat Teds and a job picking cher...

  • Staying On sinopsis y comentarios

    Staying On

    Paul Scott

    Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hi...

  • The Last Pleasure Garden sinopsis y comentarios

    The Last Pleasure Garden

    Lee Jackson

    A sinister figure stalks the gaslit groves of Cremorne Gardens, the last pleasureground on the banks of the Thames. His weapon, a sharp pair of scissors. His victims, young women i...

  • Anastasia Syndrome sinopsis y comentarios

    Anastasia Syndrome

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Trapped in her seventeethcentury past, a brilliant writer exacts an ancient revenge in the twentieth... A child wanders, lost and alone, in the maze of New York...A lottery ticket ...

  • Resistance In James Kelman's 'How Late It Was, How Late' sinopsis y comentarios

    Resistance In James Kelman's 'How Late It Was, How Late'

    Rositsa Kronast

    Discussing How Late It Was, How Late, the present paper pays special attention to the modes of resistance as presented in Kelmans text. In this respect, the purpose of my introduct...

  • On Saturdays (Storycuts) sinopsis y comentarios

    On Saturdays (Storycuts)

    Su Tong & Howard Goldblatt

    You don't expect some guy making small talk on a train to turn into a real friend, but that was just the kind of friend Papa Qi was. And afterwards, Saturday became Papa Qi's visit...

  • The Tragedy of Mister Morn sinopsis y comentarios

    The Tragedy of Mister Morn

    Vladimir Nabokov, Anastasia Tolstoy & Thomas Karshan

    Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia, the wife of a banished revolutionary, Morn finds him...

  • Poison (A Roald Dahl Short Story) sinopsis y comentarios

    Poison (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

    Roald Dahl

    Poison is a short, sharp, frightening story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking taleIn Poison, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story abou...

  • The Testament of Gideon Mack sinopsis y comentarios

    The Testament of Gideon Mack

    James Robertson

    The Testament of Gideon Mack is James Robertson's acclaimed novel exploring faith and belief.For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband and troubled soul, the existenc...

  • Scotland's Books sinopsis y comentarios

    Scotland's Books

    Robert Crawford

    From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is ...

  • To Be Continued sinopsis y comentarios

    To Be Continued

    James Robertson

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WODEHOUSE COMIC FICTION PRIZE 2017An utterly mad, entirely heartwarming Highland adventure from the Man Bookerlonglisted author of And the Land lay StillDouglas...

  • Appleby Farm - Part One sinopsis y comentarios

    Appleby Farm - Part One

    Cathy Bramley

    Freya Moorcroft has wild red hair, mischievous green eyes, a warm smile and a heart of gold. She’s happy working at the café round the corner from Ivy Lane allotments and her roman...

  • The Strode Venturer sinopsis y comentarios

    The Strode Venturer

    Hammond Innes

    What could link the slick world of London boardrooms, an isolated island race in the Maldives and the mysterious voyages of a battered ship skippered by a brooding alcoholic? It fa...

  • Myth / The Astronomical Scarf / Walter's Leg (Storycuts) sinopsis y comentarios

    Myth / The Astronomical Scarf / Walter's Leg (Storycuts)

    Ruth Rendell

    In 'Myth' the shame of being made redundant seems to have robbed David Meacher of vitality. Then, on a trip abroad, he becomes fascinated with an ancient map of the Garden of Eden....

  • Apparition & Late Fictions sinopsis y comentarios

    Apparition & Late Fictions

    Thomas Lynch

    A Methodist minister gone astray, a trout bum gone fishing with his father's ashes, an artist overwhelmed by embodied beautythese are among the uncommon heroes and exquisite narrat...

  • The Badness of King George sinopsis y comentarios

    The Badness of King George

    Judith Summers

    Judith Summers' life is about to change dramatically.Her fiveyear relationship with her onoff boyfriend has finally ended. Her son, Joshua, is off to university, and for the first ...

  • Grits sinopsis y comentarios

    Grits

    Niall Griffiths

    In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters from various parts of Britain find themselves washed up together in a small town on the west coast of Wales, fixed between mountains an...

  • Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped sinopsis y comentarios

    Filboid Studge, the Story of a Mouse that Helped

    Saki

    'Three weeks later the world was advised of the coming of a new breakfast food, heralded under the resounding name of 'Filboid Studge''H.H. Munro, better known by his pen name, Sak...

  • Byrne sinopsis y comentarios

    Byrne

    Anthony Burgess

    Michael Byrne is an Irish Don Juan a composer, a charmer, a bigamist and a thug. He moves from country to country, from bed to bed, selling his talents and leaving a trail of chi...

  • Edward the Conqueror (A Roald Dahl Short Story) sinopsis y comentarios

    Edward the Conqueror (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

    Roald Dahl

    Edward the Conqueror is a brilliant gem of a short story from Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail.In Edward the Conqueror, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite auth...

  • Particle Theory sinopsis y comentarios

    Particle Theory

    Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

    Two orphaned boys one Russian (Ivan), and one British (Michael) may or may not be brothers, Ivan is brought up brutally on the bleak rural steppes, while Michael is cosseted by hi...

  • James Kelman sinopsis y comentarios

    James Kelman

    Aaron Kelly

    This study argues that James Kelman's work should not be construed as a resigned capitulation to capitalist domination or to the fracture of a once unified workingclass collective ...

  • Rules of the Wild sinopsis y comentarios

    Rules of the Wild

    Francesca Marciano

    In the vast space of East Africa lives a closeknit tribe of expatriates. They all meet at dinner parties; they share the same doctors and eat at the same restaurants; they sleep wi...

  • And the Land Lay Still sinopsis y comentarios

    And the Land Lay Still

    James Robertson

    And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James RobertsonAnd the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a ...