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Irvine Welsh
Birth at
27 September 1958
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Irvine Welsh was born in 1958, on September 27, in a suburb of Edinburgh. When he was 4 years old, he and his parents moved to Edinburgh, where he graduated from school, and then courses, receiving the specialty of electrician. Subsequently, he acted as an apprentice technician on television, but due to injury (electric shock) leaves this job. In 1978, Welsh moved to London, where he played and sang with the bands Stairway 13 and The Pubic Lice, and led a far from decent life. He faces a series
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Irvine Welsh was born in 1958, on September 27, in a suburb of Edinburgh. When he was 4 years old, he and his parents moved to Edinburgh, where he graduated from school, and then courses, receiving the specialty of electrician. Subsequently, he acted as an apprentice technician on television, but due to injury (electric shock) leaves this job.
In 1978, Welsh moved to London, where he played and sang with the bands Stairway 13 and The Pubic Lice, and led a far from decent life. He faces a series of arrests related to minor offences and suspended imprisonment for an act of vandalism. As a result, the future writer decides that he needs to change something in his life, so he begins to work in the administration of the Hackney district and learn programming. When the construction boom hit North London, Irwin worked as a real estate agent, but soon returned to his hometown, where he graduated from Heriot Watt University and earned a degree in computer science.
Welsh began writing in the early 90s, and the first novel “On the Needle” was published in 1993. It is an autobiographical book about young drug addicts who lived in Edinburgh in the late 80s. On the basis of this work, a picture of the same name was removed. After his second book, The Nightmares of the Marabu Stork (1995), Welsh became a talented writer. This was followed by the release of such collections as "Acid House" and "Ecstasy". And 2002 was marked by the release of the novel “Porn” – a kind of continuation of “On the Needle”.
Irwin Welsh’s popularity can be attributed to the fact that he describes drug use and shows the “inside” of young people’s lives. In addition, in his works he tells about the life of Scotland from 1960 to the present time, considering the problems of this generation.