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Chips are everything Interview The drug-fuelled author of Trainspotting is now writing about Scotland's passion for deep-fried food and fish shops. Whatever's happened to Irvine Welsh?
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Irvine Welsh has been described as "the king of British youth
culture" - a title which owes as much to his outlandish behaviour as
it does to his fiction. Besides writing about drugs (most famously in
Trainspotting, his 1993 novel set on the bleakest housing estates in
Edinburgh and translated into 20 different languages, including
Hebrew), he is probably best known for taking them. His cuttings file
is laced with breathless stories of excess: at the age of nine he was
ingesting glue. By 12, he was experimenting with home brew. At 25 he
was on heroin, while by his 30s - so the story goes - he ...
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