Biography
Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. He was born on 27 September 1958 in Leith, Edinburgh, and studied for an MBA at Heriot-Watt University.
His debut novel Trainspotting (1993) was adapted into a film of the same name in 1996. He wrote the screenplay for the 1998 film adaptation of his short-story collection The Acid House (1994). Other notable works include the novels Filth (1998) and Porno (2002), as well as later books in the Trainspotting series such as Skagboys (2012) and Dead Men’s Trousers (2018).
