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Meek attended school at [[Grove Academy]] in [[Broughty Ferry]], Dundee, and studied at [[Edinburgh University]]. His first short stories were published in the ''[[New Edinburgh Review]]'' and he collaborated with [[Duncan McLean (writer)|Duncan McLean]] on a play, ''Faculty of Rats'', which starred [[Angus Macfadyen]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/M/macfadyen_angus/|title = Actors Actresses Acting Schools Celebrity Information Fansites About Stars and 4 Star Hotels}}</ref>
After a few years in England Meek returned to Edinburgh in 1988, where he worked for ''[[The Scotsman]]''. The following year, his first novel, ''McFarlane Boils the Sea'', was published.<ref>http://www.jamesmeek.net/www.jamesmeek.net/Biography_2.html {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> In 1990 he helped McLean set up the garage publishing house Clocktower Press.<ref>Mclean, Duncan (1997). ahead of its time. Vintage. p. ix-xxii. {{ISBN|0-099-26848-5}}.</ref>
In 1991 Meek moved to Kiev and in 1994 to Moscow. He joined the staff of ''[[The Guardian]]'', becoming its Moscow bureau chief. In 1999 he moved to London. He left the ''Guardian'' in 2005. He is the author of five novels, two books of short stories and a book of essays about privatisation. He is a contributing editor to ''[[The London Review of Books]]''.<ref>http://www.jamesmeek.net/www.jamesmeek.net/Biography_2.html {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref>
==Fiction==
In the 1990s and early 2000s Meek was associated with the emerging experimental realist school of Scottish writers, including [[Irvine Welsh]] and [[Alan Warner]], appearing with them on the pages of the [[Kevin Williamson (writer)|Kevin Williamson]]-edited short story collection ''Children of Albion Rovers''.<ref>Williamson, Kevin (ed)(1997). Children of Albion Rovers. Rebel Inc. {{ISBN|0862417317}}</ref> His fiction during this time – two novels and two books of short stories – was characterised by surrealism and absurdism and influenced by writers such as [[Franz Kafka]] and [[James Kelman]].<ref>http://welcometothevelvet.com/forums/content.php?132-Interview-James-Meek {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://etudesecossaises.revues.org/79|doi = 10.4000/etudesecossaises.79|title = Reason, Justice, Cannibalism|year = 2008|last1 = Leishman|first1 = David|journal = Études Écossaises|issue = 11|pages = 127–142}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/index.php/back-issues/volume-8-2012/volume-eight-issue-three/501-what-if-there-is-a-god-colin-waters |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2014-09-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235120/http://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/index.php/back-issues/volume-8-2012/volume-eight-issue-three/501-what-if-there-is-a-god-colin-waters |archivedate=3 March 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Meek has described it as 'magical dirty realism'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://aerodrome.co.za/tracing-paths-to-the-dark/|title = Aerodrome.co.za}}</ref>
Meek’s third novel, ''The People’s Act of Love'', published in 2005, brought him critical acclaim<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/23/AR2006022301720.html</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview28|title=The People's Act of Love by James Meek review – a hymn to humanity|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=9 July 2005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n14/michael-wood/dynamite-for-cologne|title = Dynamite for Cologne|journal = London Review of Books|date = 21 July 2005|volume = 27|issue = 14|last1 = Wood|first1 = Michael}}</ref> and a wider audience. It was translated into more than twenty languages and earned a number of awards and a nomination for the [[Booker Prize]]. [[Newsweek]] magazine named it one of the top ten works of fiction of the 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://2010.newsweek.com/top-10/best-fictional-books/the_people_s_actoflovebyjamesmeek.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023062947/http://2010.newsweek.com/top-10/best-fictional-books/the_people_s_actoflovebyjamesmeek.html |archive-date=23 October 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Johnny Depp]] optioned the book for a film adaptation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.movieinsider.com/m3870/the-peoples-act-of-love/|title = Everything You Need to Know About the People's Act of Love Movie: Dec. 15, 2006 - created the movie profile}}</ref>
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