Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a Scottish - American writer. He is the author of Young Mungo. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, is the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize.

Shuggie Bain won the Sue Kaufman award from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. It won the British Book of the Year, and The British Debut of the Year, at the British book awards in 2021. Shuggie Bain was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction, the Pen Hemingway Award, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, The Rathbones Folio, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award, and the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.

His short stories have been published by The New Yorker. His writing on Gender, Class and Anxiety was featured on Lit Hub.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, after receiving his MA from the Royal College of Art in London, he has lived and worked in New York City.

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