Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart TwitterDouglas Stuart is the second Scot to win the awardScottish-American author Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize 2020 for his debut novel “Shuggie Bain”, which is about a boy who does his best to support his alcoholic mother in the 1980s Glasgow. After last year’s controversy about the judges choosing two winners, this year’s judging panel has unanimously decided on one winner, reports BBC. The Booker Prize is the UK’s leading literary award and has been awarded since 1969 to the best original fiction written in the English language and published in the UK. Normally announced at a formal dinner in London’s Guildhall, this year’s prize was announced in a BBC broadcast from the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, north London. To win the prize, Stuart beat acclaimed Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga, the Ethiopian-American writer Maaza Mengiste, and the US writers Avni Doshi, Diane Cook, and Brandon Taylor.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 20, 2020 11:26 UTC