Louise Welsh

Louise Welsh is an author of short stories and novels in Glasgow, Scotland.

Welsh studied history at Glasgow University and traded in second-hand bookscite web |url= http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth5689224102e1e19771kOm2B7EAD4 |title= Biography, Genres, Bibliography, Prizes & Awards, Critical Perspective |format= html |work= British Council Arts |quote= ] for several years before publishing her first novel.

Louise Welsh's debut novel "The Cutting Room" (2002)cite web |url= http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2003/04/08/cutting/index.html |title= "Captivating Thriller from a new Scottish Writer |author= Charles Taylor |format= html |work= Salon.com |date= 8 April 2003 |quote= ] was nominated for several literary awards including the 2003 Orange Prize for Fiction. It won the Crime Writers' Association Creasey Dagger for the best first crime novel and was a joint winner of the Saltire Society First Book of The Year Award.

Welsh's second major work, the novella "Tamburlaine Must Die" (2004),cite web |url= http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1543299,00.html |title= "Capital Encounter" |author= Paul Hamilos (interview) |format= html |work= The Guardian |date= 5 August 2005 |quote= ] fictionally recounts the last few days in the life of 16th-century English dramatist (see "Tamburlaine)" and poet Christopher Marlowe.

Her third novel, "The Bullet Trick" (2006)cite web |url= http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/crime/0,,1826032,00.html |title= "And for her next trick ..." |author= Mark Lawson |format= html |work= The Guardian |date= 22 July 2006 |quote= ] is set in Berlin, London and Glasgow and narrated from the perspective of magician and conjurer William Wilson.

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