Douglas Stuart

Name: Douglas Stuart
Start: 2026-09-17T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-17T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Theater aan het Spui

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 · 20:00 — 21:00

Theater aan het Spui, The Hague

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Author Douglas Stuart takes the stage at Theater aan het Spui to discuss his work.

About: Douglas Stuart

Stuart claimed the 2020 Booker Prize with Shuggie Bain, a novel he wrote while holding down a career in fashion design. His three novels - including John of John, published in May 2026 - form a loose triptych centred on Scottish men wrestling with class, faith and desire.

40+

languages into which his work has been translated

Sunday Times bestseller list with Young Mungo

1M+

copies sold of Shuggie Bain

What's new

2026-07
John of John is on the longlist of the Booker Prize 2026, with which Stuart as a former winner is nominated again for the most prestigious English-language literary prize.
2026-05
Stuart's third novel John of John was published on 5 May 2026 by Grove Press; the book is set on the Scottish island of Harris in the late nineties and is also nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
2026-05
Stuart described his three novels Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo and John of John as a 'loose triptych'.

Tracks

Shuggie Baindebut novel (2020), winner of the Booker Prize and sold more than a million copies

Young Mungosecond novel (2022), number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list

John of Johnthird novel (May 2026), Booker Prize 2026 longlist and nominated for the Orwell Prize

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