Awards & Winners

James Kelman

Date of Birth 09-June-1946
Place of Birth Glasgow
(Scotland, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, United Kingdom, Strathclyde)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Novelist, Author, Playwright, Essayist, Writer
James Kelman 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 In 1998 Kelman was awarded the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award. His 2008 novel Kieron Smith, Boy won both of Scotland's principal literary awards: the Saltire Society's Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.

Awards by James Kelman

Check all the awards nominated and won by James Kelman.

2011


Nominations 2011 »

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Man Booker International Prize

2009


Nominations 2009 »

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Man Booker International Prize

1994


Man Booker Prize
Honored for : How Late It Was, How Late

Nominations 1994 »

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Man Booker Prize How Late It Was, How Late

1989


Nominations 1989 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Man Booker Prize A Disaffection