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The mural includes the quote: ‘You’ll not remember the city you were too wee, but there’s dancing. All kinds of dancing’ A MURAL inspired by Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain has been unveiled in the city where much of the book is set. The writer said it is “one of the proudest moments of my life” as the artwork was revealed on a wall of the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow. The Glasgow-born writer in November became only the second Scottish writer to win the prestigious award for his debut novel Shuggie Bain, inspired by his childhood in 1980s Glasgow.
Submitting... The mural features Shuggie dancing in the street and a quote from the book – “You’ll not remember the city you were too wee, but there’s dancing. All kinds of dancing.” The piece was designed and made by the Cobolt Collective, comprising 2015 Glasgow School of Art graduates Erin Bradley-Scott, Chelsea Frew and Kat Loudon. Stuart, who now lives in New York, said: “It is beyond my wildest dreams to see my words adorning the city that inspired them. Glasgow, and the Barras, are at the very heart of Shuggie Bain. “The novel is a portrait of a working-class family from the East End, and their resilient Glaswegian spirit.