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Graeme Armstrong


Scotland (b.1991)

Graeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire’s gang culture. He was inspired to study English Literature following his reading of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting at just sixteen. Alongside overcoming his own struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he defied expectation to read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where, after graduating with honours, he returned to study a Masters’ in Creative Writing.

His debut novel, The Young Team is inspired by his experiences.
 

Awards: SoA (2021)  see all
 
New and upcoming books
April 2026

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Raveheart
 
Novels
   The Young Team (2020)
   Raveheart (2026)
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Awards
2023 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
2021 Somerset Maugham Award : The Young Team

Award nominations
2021 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : The Young Team


Graeme Armstrong recommends
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Who They Was (2020)
Gabriel Krauze
"A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth – or with such brutal honesty – as only lived experience can tell."

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