# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irvine-welsh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:45:11.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irvine-welsh"
name: "Irvine Welsh"
slug: "irvine-welsh"
description: "Irvine Welsh is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and filmmaker. His novels and short stories, which almost always take place in his native Scotland, are known for their gritty depictions of working-class life and its intricacies; particularly drug addiction, social alienation, lack of opportunity and boredom, amongst others."
tagline: "Scottish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Irvine_Welsh_2024_i109.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           56.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.607388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/IrvineWelsh"
    handle:    "IrvineWelsh"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/irvine.welsh/"
    handle:    "irvine.welsh"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/irvinewelshauthor"
    handle:    "irvinewelshauthor"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920543/"
    handle:    "nm0920543"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Իրվին Ուելշ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump