biography
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| lived:
| (1946– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and short-story writer, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He published his first book of short stories in 1983, and his first novel, The Busconductor Hines, in 1984. Regarded as one of the major talents in contemporary Scottish fiction, he won the Booker Prize in 1994 for How Late It Was, How Late. Later works include The Good Times: Stories (1998), a novel Translated Accounts (2001), and collected essays And the Judges Said... (2002). |
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