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en-wikipedia-org-8566		James Kelman - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2782	344	73	James Kelman (born 9 June 1946) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. In 1998, Kelman received the Stakis Prize for "Scottish Writer of the Year" for his collection of short stories The Good Times. Kelman's work has been described as flowing "not only from being an engaged writer, but a cultural and political activist".[8] At the time of Glasgow's Year as City of Culture he was prominent in the Workers' City group, critical of the celebrations. In his introduction to Born up a Close: Memoirs of a Brigton Boy (2006), an edition of Glaswegian political campaigner Hugh Savage's writings, Kelman sums up his understanding of the history of national and class conflict as follows: Book-length critical works on Kelman[edit] Works by James Kelman	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8566.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8566.txt