Scottish writer Douglas Stuart wins 2020 Booker Prize for novel Shuggie Bain: Highlights with Details | Pics: Twitter

Scottish writer Douglas Stuart wins 2020 Booker Prize for novel Shuggie Bain: Highlights with Details

The Booker Prize 2020: Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for fiction with his debut novel Shuggie Bain, which described a boy growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s with a mother battling addiction. 

Highlights with Details - 2020 Booker Prize 

The awards ceremony saw six shortlisted authors joining virtually and included messages from former US President Barack Obama, the Duchess of Cornwall and former Booker winners Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.

Prize Money - The Booker Prize 2020 Winner

Douglas Stuart, 44, who won the 50,000 Pound prize after being announced the winner by chair of the judges Margaret Busby, delivered an acceptance speech.

About 2020 Booker Prize Winner Novel - Shuggie Bain

Shuggie Bain Novel - Based on his own childhood, Stuart’s book is described as a searing account of the boy growing up in Thatcher’s Glasgow. He dedicated the book to his own mother, who died of alcoholism when he was 16. The Booker Prize shortlist also included Indian-origin writer Avni Doshi’s novel ‘Burnt Sugar’.

About 2020 Booker Prize Winner - Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in London, he moved to New York City, where he began a career in fashion design. His work has appeared in the New Yorker and on LitHub. Shuggie Bain is his first novel.

About - The Booker Prize

The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969. The Booker Prize leading literary award in the English speaking world, which has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. Awarded annually to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.novel.(inp:newsOnair, bookerprize)

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