Louise Welsh

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Louise Welsh

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

Life

Louise Welsh graduated from the University of Glasgow with a degree in history from 1985 to 1990 with a Master of Arts (Honors) degree . She then earned her living for eight years as an expert on antiquarian books. She wrote short stories that she was able to journalise right away. Then she got into a pronounced dry spell in the literary field . She completed a two-year postgraduate course in creative writing at the University of Glasgow and Strathclyde University with a Master of Letters . Since then she has had her main residence in Glasgow , where she teaches creative writing at Anniesland College and the University of Glasgow.

In an interview with the Guardian , they proved to be a quick-witted with black humor equipped pacifist and feminist, the light jazz and Scottish fellow authors James Kelman underestimated. She says about her adopted home, Glasgow, that she leads a quiet, nice, provincial, big-city life there, knowing full well that there is one of the highest statistical murder rates in the country.

In 2006, Louise Welsh lived on a scholarship as Writer in Residence in Bamberg in the international artist house Villa Concordia there .

Her novels are more literarily sophisticated thrillers than detective novels . They often play in well-researched historical contexts, but also do not serve the genre of the historical novel. The ball trick from 2006, for example, traces the ephemeral splendor of the historic small variety theaters , takes readers to former taverns in Glasgow, to the dingy night clubs of London's Soho entertainment district and even to the sunken world of old Berlin courtyards. It is about the inner conflict of a man who is struggling with a guilt that he has innocently brought upon himself.

The filming of Dunkelkammer is planned - the rights have been acquired by her cousin, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh .

Welsh has had a long collaboration with the composer Stuart MacRae , for whom she wrote four opera librettos. The joint opera Anthropocene was premiered in 2019 by the Scottisch Opera.

Works

  • 2002 The Cutting Room (novel)
  • 2004 Tamburlaine Must Die (novel)
    • Tamburlaine muss die, German by Wolfgang Müller, Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-88897-384-8
  • 2006 The Bullet Trick (novel)
  • 2010 Naming the Bones (novel)
  • 2012 The Girl on the Stairs (novel)
    • Suspicion is an uncanny neighbor, German by Astrid Gravert, Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-88897-929-3
  • 2014 A Lovely Way to Burn (novel), Hodder & Stoughton
    • V5N6. Deadly fever , German by Wolfgang Müller, Verlag Antje Kunstmann, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-95614-090-7 .

Awards

  • Annual scholarship 2006 from Villa Concordia , Bamberg
  • Hawthornden Fellowship 2004
  • Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award 2004
  • Corine - International Book Prize (in the Darkroom Debut Novel category) 2004
  • Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award
  • BBC's Underground Award 2003
  • The Saltire First Book Award 2002
  • John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award from the UK Crime Writers' Association for The Cutting Room 2002
  • Nomination for The Guardian First Fiction Award 2002

Web links

Individual references, footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/05/fiction.paulhamilos Interview from August 5, 2005 in the online edition of the Guardian (in English)
  2. ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendung/profil/534278/ "Bamberg resembles Glasgow in a certain way" (Dradio "Profil", from August 25, 2006)
  3. ^ Professor Louise Welsh. Biography at the University of Glasgow , accessed June 11, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Welsh, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and librettist
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK