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James Kelman

Scotland (b.1946)

James Kelman (born in Glasgow) is an influential writer of novels, short stories, plays and political essays. His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize with How late it was, how late and aroused something of a controversy in doing so: one of the judges, Rabbi Julia Neuberger, called the book 'a disgrace' when it was announced that Kelman had won. In 1998 Kelman was awarded the Scotland on Sunday/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award.

Awards: Saltire (2012), Booker (1994), James Tait Black (1989) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

New and upcoming books

April 2025

The Story of Stone

Novels

   The Bus Conductor Hines (1984)
   A Chancer (1985)
   Greyhound for Breakfast (1987)
   A Disaffection (1989)
   How Late It Was, How Late (1994)
   The Good Times (1998)
   Translated Accounts (2001)
   You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free (2004)
   Kieron Smith, Boy (2008)
   Mo Said She Was Quirky (2012)
   Dirt Road (2016)
   God's Teeth and Other Phenomena (2020)

Collections

   An Old Pub Near the Angel (1973)
   Not, Not While the Giro (1983)
   Lean Tales (1985) (with Alasdair Gray and Agnes Owens)
   The Burn (1991)
   Hardie and Baird and Other Plays (1991)
   Essays and Stories (1995)
   Seven Stories (1997)
   Selected Stories (2001)
   If it is Your Life (2010)
   A Lean Third (2014)
   That Was a Shiver (2017)
   Keep Moving and No Questions (2023)

Anthologies edited

East End Anthology (1988)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by James Kelman

Nova Scotia Vol 2. (2024)
New Speculative Fiction From Scotland
(Nova Scotia, book 2)
edited by
Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson

Best British Short Stories 2017 (2017)
(Best British Short Stories)
edited by
Nicholas Royle

Awards

	2012 Saltire Literary Award : Mo Said She Was Quirky
	2008 Saltire Literary Award : Kieron Smith, Boy
	1994 Booker Prize : How Late It Was, How Late
	1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : A Disaffection