English novel L. Kennedy (born 1965) whose 2007 novel "Day" was named Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards. In 2007 she won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature; Alasdair Gray (born 1934) whose "" (1981) is a dystopian fantasy set in his home town Glasgow. Another contemporary Scot is Irvine Welsh, whose novel "Trainspotting" (1993), gives a brutal depiction of the lives of working class Edinburgh drug users. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s, her novels include, "The Infernal Desire
Middlesex (novel) made the best-selling fiction list and kept its position for five weeks. In June 2007, the novel ranked seventh on "USA Today"s Best-Selling Books list. In the same month, after Eugenides appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to discuss the novel, "Middlesex" placed second on "The New York Times" best-selling paperback fiction list. The Pulitzer award nearly propelled "Middlesex" to "The New York Times" Best Seller list, which in 2003 published only the top 15 bestsellers; in the week after "Middlesex" was announced the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the novel placed 17th on the "expanded list". In 2007, 1.3