Douglas Stuart grew up in a Glasgow housing estate with no books in the house. His mother died of alcoholism when he was sixteen. Thirty-two publishers rejected his first novel. It won the Booker ...

Douglas Stuart was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel “Shuggie Bain” on Thursday. “Shuggie Bain,” published in February, follows the life of Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a kind, lonely boy ...

The working-class 1980s Glasgow of Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut “Shuggie Bain” is again the setting of his follow-up “Young Mungo,” and with it come the violence, religious tribalism, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by Grove shows "Shuggie Bain," a novel by Douglas Stuart. The Scottish writer has won the Booker Prize ...

In 2020, Stuart won the Booker prize for his debut novel "Shuggie Bain." It's the story of a working-class boy in Glasgow, trying to cope with his... Booker Prize-winning author Douglas Stuart puts ...

LONDON (AP) — Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for “Shuggie Bain,” a novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow that was turned ...