Dramatic Anti-Bullying Novel by Esteemed Author Richard Duggin Showcased at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023

For several days, citizens and tourists alike had the opportunity to visit the world’s largest book fair, Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse). This year’s event certainly had many high points (as well as several controversial ones). But, of course, the same could always be said of the many exhibited books that talked about a variety of sensitive topics.

It is why the recent works of highly esteemed authors like Richard Duggin were right at home.

Duggin is the author of “Boys In Exile,” a novel that focuses on the subject of school bullying and the disturbing consequences it has that are felt even in one’s senior years. The book was on display during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 with the help of ReadersMagnet, a book marketing and self-publishing company.

A combination of a coming-of-age tale and an old man’s recollection, “Boys In Exile” tells the life of Elliott Street. Street is a grandfather who had just recently discovered his grandson is a victim of bullying. Yet as he tends to the boy’s wounds, he eventually begins sharing the wounds he himself carries from the same traumatic experience when he was the boy’s age.

“Boys In Exile” is just one of many well-received novels that Richard Duggin has published. He’s hailed as a masterful storyteller who has written fiction for over 60 years. He’s also taught creative fiction writing at the University of Nebraska and founded several writing programs. So while the Frankfurt Book Fair marks some of his books’ latest returns to live event displays, it certainly won’t be his last.

Richard Duggin’s “Boys in Exile” is available on Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

“Boys in Exile”
Author: Richard Duggin
Published date: June 10, 2022
Publisher: BookLocker Press
Genre: Novel

Author Bio
Richard Duggin, a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, has taught fiction writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha for the past sixty years. He founded and was chair of the UNO Writer’s Workshop, a BFA degree program in creative writing. More recently, in 2005 he founded and was Director of the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing program, a low-residency graduate writing program in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, screen and stage.

Duggin’s published work includes 3 novels: The Music Box Treaty; Woman Refusing To Leave; “Boys In Exile;” and a collection of short stories, Why Won’t You Talk To Me: Selected Stories. He has published widely a number of short fiction which have appeared in such periodicals as Beloit Fiction Journal, Laurel Review, The Sun, Playboy Magazine, Crosscurrents, Kansas Quarterly, and elsewhere. His work has been cited by Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Playboy Magazine Best Fiction.

Over the years, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Merit Awards, and was awarded several artist residencies at Ragdale, Yaddo, and the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

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