Autor/-in: Graeme Armstrong

Graeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire¿s gang culture. Alongside overcoming his own struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where he returned to study a Masters¿ in Creative Writing. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Strathclyde. His bestselling debut novel, The Young Team, is inspired by his experiences, and Picador published in March 2020. It won a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and Scots Book o the Year 2021. In 2021, Graeme presented 'Scotland the Rave', a documentary screened by the BBC that explored Scotland¿s rave and PCDJ culture, which was subsequently nominated for a BAFTA Scotland and RTS Scotland Award 2022. Most recently, Graeme was named as one of Grantäs `Best of Young British Novelists 5¿.