• Jeff Torrington (31 December 1935 – 11 May 2008) was a novelist from Glasgow in Scotland. His novels draw on the changing face of modern Scotland. Swing...
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  • Torrington may refer to: Arthur Torrington, Guyanese-born co-founder of the Windrush Foundation and the Equiano Society Jeff Torrington, Scottish writer...
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    included James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead, Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington. In 1973, with the support of Edwin Morgan, he received a grant from...
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  • southwest Scotland to Glasgow. The novel Swing Hammer Swing! (1992) by Jeff Torrington, decades in the writing, is set in the Gorbals. The character Kristine...
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  • John Richardson A Life of Picasso — 1992 Alasdair Gray Poor Things Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! Gillian Cross The Great Elephant Chase Tony Harrison...
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  • Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke. Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease. Curtis...
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    with Tom Leonard, Alasdair Gray, Liz Lochhead, Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington, and his short stories began to appear in magazines. These stories...
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  • influence on many Scottish writers as diverse as Aonghas MacNeacail and Jeff Torrington A C Jacobs, poet Hans Kosterlitz, professor of pharmacology, University...
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  • Buddha of Suburbia Winner 1991 Gordon Burn Alma Cogan Winner 1992 Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! Winner 1993 Rachel Cusk Saving Agnes Winner 1994...
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  • doctor Ruthven Todd (1914–1978), poet, novelist and children's writer Jeff Torrington (1935–2008), novelist Thomas Toughill (living), non-fiction writer...
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