Alan Bissett

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alan Bissett
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Nov 17, 1975(1975-11-17)
Age	49
Birthplace	Falkirk
Country	Scotland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Alan Bissett Biography

Alan Bissett is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on November 17, 1975 in Falkirk, Scotland. Bissett was born in

1975. He attended Falkirk High School and then the University of Stirling, where he gained a First-Class Honours degree in English literature and education. After a short spell as a secondary-school teacher at Elgin Academy, Bissett was awarded a master’s degree in English from the University of Stirling, during which time he edited a collection of Scottish Gothic stories, Damage Land (2001), and wrote his first novel, Boyracers. His stories were either short- or longlisted for the national Macallan Short-Story Competition four times between 1999 and 2002. His third novel, Death of a Ladies’ Man, was published by Hachette Scotland in July 2009. In 2009 Bissett moved into playwriting: his first play, The Ching Room, was performed at Oran Mor and Traverse Theatre in March 2009, starring Andy Clarke and Colin McCredie. It was followed by Times When I Bite, or The Moira Monologues a “one-woman show” that Bissett has performed himself (at Glasgow literary festival Aye Write! in March 2009, at the Kikinda Short Story Festival in Serbia in June 2009, and at the Traverse Theatre in November 2009. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Bissett described the inspiration for the character of Moira Bell.

Bissett used to lecture in creative writing at Bretton Hall College, now part of the University of Leeds, and tutored the creative writing MLitt at the University of Glasgow alongside Janice Galloway and Tom Leonard. He became a full-time writer in December 2007. In March 2012, he became a “Cultural Ambassador” for National Collective, a creative organisation which supports Scottish independence.

Inspired by this experience, Bissett approached bands Zoey Van Goey and Y’all is Fantasy Island suggesting they perform together. In May 2007, all three performed together in a short tour of Central Scotland. The tour, called Super Puny Humans played in Edinburgh on 2 May, Glasgow on the third, Stirling on the fourth and finally Falkirk on the fifth. Since then, Bissett has regularly performed his writing at concerts in support slots for various bands, including the first-ever comeback gig of The Vaselines, and the “Music Like A Vitamin” night at ABC Glasgow, run by Rod Jones from Idlewild in support of Mental Health Week. He also performed spoken word sets at the Connect Music Festival in 2007 and 2008, and at Crossing Border Festival in 2007.

Alan Bissett Net Worth

Alan Bissett is one of the richest Writer from Scotland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alan Bissett 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Alan Bissett (born 17 November 1975) is an author and playwright from Hallglen, an area of Falkirk in Scotland. After the publication of his first two novels, Boyracers and The Incredible Adam Spark, he became known for his different take on Scots dialect writing, evolving a style specific to Falkirk, suffused with popular culture references and socialist politics. He also applied to be rector of Glasgow University in 2014.

In 2009, The Shutdown[2], a short documentary Bissett wrote (and narrated) about the experience of growing up in the shadow of the Grangemouth Oil Refinery, with particular mention of his father’s injury in the refinery flare line incident of 13 March 1987 [3] premiered in competition at Edinburgh International Film Festival, IDFA and Silverdocs, was shortlisted for the Scottish Short Documentary Award and won both the Jury and Audience Awards for Scottish Short Film at the Jim Poole Scottish Short Film Awards[4]. The Shutdown was directed by Adam Stafford, and later picked up for distribution by Accidental Media.

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John Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Scotland. Alan Bissett celebrates birthday on November 17 of every year.