Booker Prize

  • Shuggie Bain by Scottish American writer Douglas Stuart won this year’s Booker Prize.
  • Shuggie Bain is an autobiographical novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s. 
  • It follows the life of Shuggie, an impoverished boy struggling to look after his single mother, Agnes, an alcoholic, even as he grapples with his own sexuality.
  • The novel is Stuart’s first book.
  • Stuart is only the second Scotsman to win the £50,000 Booker Prize. 
  • James Kelman won the award in 1994 for "How Late It Was, How Late".

BOOKER PRIZE

  • The Booker Prize for Fiction has been given since 1969.
  • It is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom.
  • The award was formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019).

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