Louise Welsh

Louise Welsh ( born 1 February 1965 in London) is a British writer.

Life

Louise Welsh graduated from 1985 to 1990 a study of the science of history at the University of Glasgow with a Master of Arts ( Honours). After she earned her living for eight years as an expert on antiquarian books. She wrote short stories that they could accommodate a publicist right away. Then they got in the literary in a pronounced dry spell. A two-year postgraduate course in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and Strathclyde University, she finished with the degree of Master of Letters. Since then she has her main residence in Glasgow and there is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Anniesland College and the University of Glasgow.

In an interview with the Guardian she showed up as a quick-witted equipped with black humor pacifist and suffragist, the light jazz and the Scottish author James Kelman colleagues underestimated. About her adopted home Glasgow she says she there leading a quiet, nice provincial big-city life, knowing that there's give one of the highest murder rates in the country statistics.

The year 2006 lived Louise Welsh on a scholarship as a Writer in Residence in Bamberg at the local International Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia.

Her novels are more sophisticated literary thriller for crime novels. They often play in well-researched historical contexts, but also serve not the genre of the historical novel. The ball trick from 2006, for example, traces the ephemeral splendor of the historic little vaudeville theater after, the reader takes in former dens of Glasgow, in the dingy night clubs of London's Soho entertainment area and even into the lost world of old Berlin backyards. It is about the inner conflict of a man who is struggling with a debt he has saddled itself innocent.

The film adaptation of darkroom is planned - the right has her cousin, the Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh acquired.

Works

  • 2002 The Cutting Room (novel) Darkroom, German by Wolfgang Müller, Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-88897-348-1
  • Tamburlaine Must Die, German by Wolfgang Müller, Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-88897-384-8
  • The ball trick German by Ruth Keen, Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-88897-444-5
  • The alphabet of the bones, German by Wolfgang Müller, Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-88897-676-6
  • Suspicion is a sinister neighbor, German by Astrid Gravert, Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-88897-929-3

Awards

  • Year Scholarship 2006 Villa Concordia, Bamberg
  • Hawthornden Fellowship in 2004
  • Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award 2004
  • Corine - International Book Award ( in the category debut novel for darkroom ) 2004
  • Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award
  • BBC 's Underground Award 2003
  • The Saltire First Book Award 2002
  • John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers' Association for The Cutting Room in 2002
  • Nominated for The Guardian First Fiction Award 2002
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