YES: Hugh Andrew
Jim Kelman's polemic on the bastardisation of our real literary tradition and heritage strikes a strong chord with me.
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ARGUMENT OF THE WEEK: Is pulp fiction taking over Scotland's bookshelves?
Booker prizewinning author James Kelman created a stushie at the Edinburgh International Book Festival when he complained that Scotland is neglecting serious literature by fixating upon genre novels. �If the Nobel Prize came from Scotland,� he said, �they would give it to a writer of detective fiction, or else some kind of child writer.� Does he have a point?
