Douglas Stuart’s novel Shuggie Bain (Grove/Picador) was awarded the £50,000 Booker Prize, in a virtual ceremony on Thursday afternoon. Chair of judges Margaret Busby said in part: ‘Shuggie Bain is destined to be a classic — a moving, immersive and nuanced portrait of a tight-knit social world, its people and its values…. The poetry in Douglas Stuart’s descriptions and the precision of his observations stand out: nothing is wasted.” Stuart said in his acceptance speech, “I know I’m only the second Scottish book in fifty years to have won, and that means I think a lot for regional voices, for working […]
