Scottish author wins 2020 Booker Prize

By Jill Lawless
Updated November 20 2020 - 2:14pm, first published 2:08pm
Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain.
Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for his debut novel Shuggie Bain.

Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for fiction for Shuggie Bain, a novel about a boy's turbulent coming of age in hard-scrabble 1980s Glasgow that was turned down by 32 publishers before being picked up.