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Alan Bissett novelist, playwright and performer who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. After the publication of his first two novels, Boyracers (2001) and The Incredible Adam Spark (2005), Bissett became known for his different take on Scots dialect writing, evolving a style specific to Falkirk, suffused with popular culture references and socialist politics.

Bissett was a lecturer in creative writing at Bretton Hall College, part of the University of Leeds, and tutored the creative writing MLitt at the University of Glasgow. It was in December 2007, that Bissett became a full-time writer, and later in March 2012 he was a "Cultural Ambassador" for National Collective, a political organisation who support Scottish independence.

In 2011 Bissett was awarded the Glenfiddich spirit of Scotland Writers of the Year, and the International Writer in Residence at the Emerging Writers' Festical in Melbourne .(Source: Wikipedia; The Emerging Writer : An Insider's Guide to Your Writing Journey 2012)