Le persone che cercano la vendetta sono sempre un po' meschine ai miei occhi. Non è che vendicarsi non sia giusto, per Dio, certe volte lo è...ma quanto più rispetto, quanto più amore per chi è capace di evitarlo. Soprattutto quando la vendetta non è per gli altri, ma per noi. Sarebbe bello avere così tanta fiducia in noi stessi, da non sentire il bisogno di umiliare nessuno; troppa stima di quello che siamo per decidere di calarci al livello di chi fa schifo. Forse non a parole, ma io nei fatti credo di averlo, questo riguardo di me. Trainspotting remains by far his biggest success. Does it bother him that critics often say he has never matched it? “I don’t get the chance to be bothered, because I go from one project to another. I’ve usually got a book or film or TV project on the go. And the one you’re doing, you’re totally immersed in. I don’t think Trainspotting is my best book by a long chalk.” Welsh's tenth novel, released in April 2016, The Blade Artist, centres around a seemingly rehabilitated Francis Begbie now living in California with a wife and children. [8] It was shortlisted for the Fiction Book of the Year at Saltire Literary Awards 2016. [9]

Sweeney, Charlene; Bannerman, Lucy. "Prequel to chart Trainspotting characters' fall from innocence". timesonline.com. London. Archived from the original on 13 May 2008 . Retrieved 17 March 2007. Welsh's novels share characters, giving the feel of a "shared universe" within his writing. For example, characters from Trainspotting make cameo appearances in The Acid House, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Ecstasy, Filth, and slightly larger appearances in Glue, whose characters then appear in Porno. Pingitore, Silvia (19 November 2021). "From Trainspotting to the TV series of Crime: the Irvine Welsh interview". the-shortlisted.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021 . Retrieved 20 November 2021. acid house και του techno οι οποίοι ζουν ουσιαστικά μόνο τα Σαββατοκύριακα μέσα στη δίνη των χαπιών και των πάρτυ. The story goes that Trainspotting stood to be Booker-shortlisted in 1993 until two judges threatened to quit. Do you ever think what might have been?Good Arrows". IMDb.com. IMDb.com, Inc. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012 . Retrieved 29 July 2012.

As well as recreational drug use, Welsh's fiction and non-fiction is dominated by the question of working class and Scottish identity in the period spanning the 1960s to the present day. Within this, he explores the rise and fall of the council housing scheme, denial of opportunity, low-paid work, unemployment, social assistance, sectarianism, football, hooliganism, sex, suppressed homosexuality, dance clubs, freemasonry, Irish republicanism, sodomy, class divisions, emigration and, perhaps most of all, the humour, prejudices and axioms of the Scots. In the late 80s he returned to Edinburgh and another new career, this time in local government. And again he made a success of it. He received a series of rapid promotions to end up as head of training at the economic development department. “I was quite hated by my staff. I was really straight.” He was sufficiently senior to recommend himself for a part-time master’s in business studies, which he completed. At the same time, he started writing seriously. Much of Trainspotting, he claims, was written at work. After publishing it in 1993, he gave up his middle-management job and wrote full time. Press Association (10 January 2013). "Scottish independence will allow us to become more British, says Irvine Welsh". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 June 2021 . Retrieved 15 June 2021.

Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, playwright, and short story writer, best known for his 1993 debut novel Trainspotting. The book became a literary and cultural phenomenon and was later adapted into a successful film directed by Danny Boyle in 1996. In 2022, he married Emma Currie, an actor and sister of Scottish pop star Momus [21] [22] Bibliography [ edit ] Novels [ edit ]