With regards to the recent furore over James Kelman's alleged statements regarding genre writing at the Edinburgh Book Festival, which, as I understand it, may have run along the lines of, 'genre writing is lazy writing', may I say that none of it really bothers me, in fact it does not concern me one iota. I am not writing for, about or to, Scotland or any other entity, the material which I have penned bears no significance in relation to Scottish or any other literature, nor is my work a part of any canon or school. In the Ogham tablatures of the history of this sceptred isle, I am simply a Paki who got uppity. Silence will be my testament.
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