Trainspotting

1993 novel by Irvine Welsh
VisualArtwork literary_work Q11279562
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Trainspotting

Summary

Trainspotting is a literary work[1]. Trainspotting ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (874 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Trainspotting authored Irvine Welsh[3].
  • Trainspotting's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • Trainspotting's publisher is recorded as Harvill Secker[5].
  • Trainspotting's follows is recorded as Skagboys[6].
  • Trainspotting's followed by is recorded as Men in Love[7].
  • Trainspotting's part of the series is recorded as Mark Renton series[8].
  • Trainspotting's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 219966941[9].
  • Trainspotting's GND ID is recorded as 4531578-4[10].
  • Trainspotting's OCLC number is recorded as 34832527[11].
  • Trainspotting's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 159126133[12].
  • Trainspotting's language of work or name is recorded as English[13].
  • Trainspotting's language of work or name is recorded as Scots[14].
  • Trainspotting's country of origin is recorded as Scotland[15].
  • Trainspotting's publication date is recorded as +1993-00-00T00:00:00Z[16].
  • Trainspotting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01hwrd[17].
  • Trainspotting's Open Library ID is recorded as OL816271W[18].
  • Trainspotting's characters is recorded as Mark Renton[19].
  • Trainspotting's characters is recorded as Sick Boy[20].
  • Trainspotting's characters is recorded as Spud[21].
  • Trainspotting's characters is recorded as Francis Begbie[22].
  • Trainspotting's Internet Archive ID is recorded as trainspotting00wels[23].
  • Trainspotting's has edition or translation is recorded as Q126726105[24].
  • Trainspotting's has edition or translation is recorded as Q126733692[25].
  • Trainspotting's has edition or translation is recorded as Trainspotting[26].
  • Trainspotting's narrative location is recorded as Edinburgh[27].

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Works and Contributions

Trainspotting authored Irvine Welsh[3].

Why It Matters

Trainspotting ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (874 views/month).[2] Trainspotting has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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