Bookerpriset till skotsk debutant: ”En klassiker”

Douglas Stuart (born 1976) is a Scottish-American author. Stuart was born in 1976 in Sighthill, a housing estate in Glasgow, Scotland. He received bachelor's degree from the Scottish College of Textiles and a master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London. Stuart moved to New York City at the age of 24 to begin a career in fashion design. He worked for many brands, including Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Banana Republic and Jack Spade. Stuart holds dual British and American citizenship.His work has appeared in The New Yorker and on LitHub. His first novel, Shuggie Bain won the 2020 Booker Prize. It was shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The novel received generally favourable review coverage, including in The Observer, The New York Times, The Scotsman, the TLS, and elsewhere. The work won the 2020 Booker prize for Fiction.

The Booker Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. From its inception, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014 it was widened to any English-language novel—a change that proved controversial.A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with anticipation and fanfare. It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or even to be nominated for the "longlist". For a book, translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland, the International Booker Prize is awarded.