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Douglas Stuart to appear at International Writers' Scene in Stockholm this autumn

Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart will appear at the International Writers' Scene in Stockholm this autumn. Patrick Radden Keefe and Mieko Kawakami will also appear.

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Douglas Stuart is currently working on the novel "John and John", and Radden Keefe will discuss, among other things, "The Oligarch's Son", a reportage book about 19-year-old Zac, who was found dead in the Thames.

Japanese author Mieko Kawakami also appears on the literary scene with her "Heaven", in which she depicts a fourteen-year-old boy in 1990s Japan who is brutally bullied for being cross-eyed.

Other invited authors are Lee Chia-Ying from Taiwan, Hemley Boum from Cameroon and the award-winning French author Jakuta Alikavazovic, whose novel "Never Ever" is the first to be published in Swedish.

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