EXCLUSIVE: Douglas Stuart speaks to Eusebius McKaiser about ‘Young Mungo’
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The 2020 Booker Prize winner, Douglas Stuart, spoke to Eusebius McKaiser about his sensational second novel, Young Mungo. Stuart became an international writing sensation after his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the Booker, and gained him countless readers and fans in the literary world. In this episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, they explored the story of Mungo in great detail.
"Young Mungo is set in Glasgow and tells the story of Mungo and his family. They are a working-class Protestant family, with plenty of trials and tribulations. His mom, Maureen, is an alcoholic. His brother, Hamish, several years older, is addicted to violence, and his sister Jodie, desperate to escape the horror of their circumstances, is forced to play mother to her younger brother Mungo because Maureen is never around."
Stuart and McKaiser ended with a discussion about the biographical aspects of being a writer (and now an internationally successful one at that), and finally about how his work should be classified (if at all). They meditated, in particular, on the pros and cons of being reduced to or regarded as "a queer writer".
"Young Mungo is set in Glasgow and tells the story of Mungo and his family. They are a working-class Protestant family, with plenty of trials and tribulations. His mom, Maureen, is an alcoholic. His brother, Hamish, several years older, is addicted to violence, and his sister Jodie, desperate to escape the horror of their circumstances, is forced to play mother to her younger brother Mungo because Maureen is never around."
Stuart and McKaiser ended with a discussion about the biographical aspects of being a writer (and now an internationally successful one at that), and finally about how his work should be classified (if at all). They meditated, in particular, on the pros and cons of being reduced to or regarded as "a queer writer".