Chris McQueer
Chris McQueer is a Scots scriever an spoken-ward makar, that scrieves in baith Scots an Scots Inglis. His scrievins are gey dark, gallas humour an surreal. He is kenspeckle fur his twa furthset quairs o cutty tales, Hings an HWFG.
| Chris McQueer | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chris McQueer Glesca, Scotland |
| Thrift | Scriever an Makar |
| Leid | Scots an Inglis |
| Naitionality | Scots |
| Eddication | City o Glesca College |
| Period | 2017–the nou |
| Genre | Derk/gallas humour, surrealism, cutty tales |
| Relatives | Tracy Jane McQueer (mither) Jay Gray (brither) |
Background eedit
McQueer was brocht up in the East End o Glesca. He wirked in a sports shop[1] an as a crime scene cleaner[2] afore he becam a scriever an makar. He is a follaer o Celtic F.C..
Thrift eedit
He began his scrievin thrift bi self-furthsettin cutty tales on Twitter. His first buik collect, Hings, wis furthset in 2017 an wis gaithert fae Twitter. It gained Best Short Story Collection at the 2018 Saboteur Awards.[1]
The muckle sonse o Hings alloued McQueer tae gie up his job tae scrieve fu-time. It wis follaed by 2018's HWFG (which stauns fur Here We Fucking Go), an wis McQueer's foremaist collect o stories tae be scrieven anely fur buik publication. Efter nae bein blythe wi his initial ettle, whit he felt haed too muckle semblance tae the style o Hings, he gied the buik a derk tone. Later, he began wirk on his first novelle. McQueer also gies a wheen o spaken-ward performance o his scrievins.[3][1]
In 2019, a few o the tales fae Hings wis adapted as a three-part series o cutty films fae BBC iPlayer, whaur McQueer kythes hissel as the narrator.[4][5]
Scrievin style eedit
McQueer's scrievins in Glesga Scots and Inglis hae a derk comic style that haes bin compared to Limmy an Irvine Welsh. Scots actor Martin Compston descrieved McQueer as "like Charlie Brooker on Buckfast".[1] His wark in the Scots leid heezed up the leid to young anes, mony o whit nae hink o Scots as "cultural cringe" onymair.[6]
References eedit
- ↑ a b c d Brooks, Libby (25 Januar 2019). "'Like Charlie Brooker on Buckfast': the caustic world of Chris McQueer". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 Julie 2019.
- ↑ Burnside, Anna (27 Julie 2017). "Some Hings were meant to be as Scots social media star Chris McQueer pens book". Daily Record (in Inglis). Retrieved 3 Februar 2023.
- ↑ Crae, Ross (10 November 2018). "Author Chris McQueer on why difficult second book HWFG isn't just more Hings". The Sunday Post. Glasgow. Retrieved 8 Julie 2019.
- ↑ "'It still doesnae feel real': Author's stories made into short films for BBC". Evening Times. Glasgow. 29 Apryle 2019. Retrieved 8 Julie 2019.
- ↑ "BBC Scotland - Chris McQueer's Hings". BBC. Retrieved 8 Julie 2019.
- ↑ Brooks, Libby (2 Januar 2020). "Duolingo sparks Gaelic boom as young Scots shrug off 'cringe' factor". the Guardian (in Inglis). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
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