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 ...

Bullying, bigotry and benefits. That is how author Douglas Stuart describes his challenging childhood. But he then went on to have a successful career as a fashion designer before winning one of the ...

On this episode of The Archive Project, we feature Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart, winner of the Booker Prize for his debut novel, “Shuggie Bain.” He speaks about his new novel, “Young Mungo,” with ...

When novelist Douglas Stuart writes about his home city and its people, he wants his reader to feel immersed in working-class Glasgow. His 2020 book “Shuggie Bain,” about a boy dealing with his mother ...

Growing up in 1980s Glasgow amid a working class beaten down by Thatcherism, Shuggie Bain watches as his family becomes increasingly broke and broken; his mother Agnes’ alcoholism drags her into a pit ...

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 ...

Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is fashion designer turned novelist Douglas ...

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, ...

Both interviews today are with author Douglas Stuart. The first about his Booker prize-winning Shuggie Bain; a story based on his own life growing up a queer son of a single mother struggling with ...