Calling Bible John: Portrait of a Serial Killer, nominated for a BAFTA award. In 2009, his novel Be Near Me was adapted by Ian McDiarmid for the Donmar Warehouse and the National Theatre of Scotland. In September 2011, the National Theatre of Scotland presented The Missing as a play adapted by O'Hagan and directed by John Tiffany at Tramway, Glasgow. The play received favourable reviews. The Daily Telegraph called it "a profound act of mourning and memory." The Guardian called the work "an arresting, genre-defying work – part speculative memoir, part Orwellian social reportage" that "induces the kind of shock he [the author] must have experienced..." In December 2022 BBC One showed an adaptation of Mayflies starring Martin Compston, Tony Curran, and Ashley Jensen. Other activities In 2001, O'Hagan was named as a Goodwill Ambassador by the UK branch of UNICEF, and he has been involved in fundraising efforts for the organisation. He has travelled to the Sudan, India, Malawi and Mozambique and has joined fellow ambassadors Ewan McGregor, Ralph Fiennes, James Nesbitt, Martin Bell and Jemima Khan in campaigning for Unicef. In August 2017, O'Hagan gave a speech at The Edinburgh International Book Festival, where he declared that he had become a supporter of Scottish independence. , O'Hagan has been a visiting professor of creative writing at King's College London. Recognition, awards and honours O'Hagan was selected by the literary magazine Granta for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists, and his novels have been translated into 15 languages. Book awards 1995 – Esquire Award for The Missing (shortlist) 1995 – McVitie's Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year for The Missing (shortlist) 1995 – Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award for The Missing (shortlist) 1996 – BAFTA, Calling Bible John (TV series, winner) 1999 – Booker Prize for Our Fathers (shortlist) 1999 –Whitbread First Novel Award for Our Fathers (shortlist) 2000 – Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Our Fathers (shortlist) 2000 – Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for Our Fathers (winner) 2001 – International Dublin Literary Award for Our Fathers (shortlist) 2003 – James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), Personality (winner) 2006 – Los Angeles Times Book Prize (for fiction), Be Near Me (winner) 2010 – Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for Writing (winner) 2020 – Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose (winner) Other honours and appointments Trustee