Trainspotting author sees 'bleak dystopia' in real life too

By Elisabeth O'Leary EDINBURGH (Reuters) - The author of "Trainspotting", a grim comedy about young Scottish drug addicts that proved a huge hit in the 1990s and still enjoys cult status, sees "bleak dystopia" in the age of Donald Trump and Britain's Brexit vote. "We seem to be in a very bleak dystopian era of ultra- nationalism, and the world has become smaller and suspicious of strangers," said Welsh, who has published another 10 books since "Trainspotting", his first novel. Britain voted to e