ABSTRACT
This chapter presents concise biographical information of Alan Warner and analysis of their major works and themes. Warner was born in the West of Scotland in 1964 and educated at Glasgow University. Warner's writing is uncompromisingly direct, shot through with deviant sexuality and demented humour, but at the heart of his fierce and strange world there is often tenderness, moments of surprising lyrical beauty and a constant sense of a wide-ranging and original imagination. In his first novel, Morvern Callar, he created a fictional world that was immediately recognisable as uniquely his own: a Scotland at once real and surreal. Morvern Callar is the story of its eponymous heroine, a low-paid supermarket employee in a remote Highland sea port. Morvern reacts with deadpan amorality to all that surrounds her yet Warner succeeds both in making her a sympathetic 'heroine' and in suggesting the enormous longings behind her blank exterior.
