biography
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| (1957– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Leith, Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. He left school at 16 and held various jobs before taking a business course at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (1988–90). He became known with his controversial first novel, Trainspotting (1993; filmed 1996), and later books include Marabou Stork Nightmares (1995), Filth (1998), and Glue (2001). His short story collections include The Acid House (1994) and Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance (1996). |
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