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Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart on Shuggie Bain

Booker prize winner Douglas Stuart on his novel Shuggie Bain, about a boy in 1980s Glasgow. Plus we announce the winner of the George Devine Award for a new play.

On Front Row last week, Douglas Stuart was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction for Shuggie Bain, his debut novel about a boy in 1980s Glasgow who supports his mother as she struggles with addiction.

Tonight Douglas Stuart talks in-depth with John Wilson about his extraordinary journey from Glasgow to becoming a fashion designer in New York and now a best-selling novelist, after being rejected by more than 30 publishers.

Plus we announce the winner of this year’s George Devine Award – the £15,000 prize for an original stage play.

Presenter: John Wilson
Producer: Timothy Prosser

main image: Douglas Stuart
Image credit: Martyn Pickersgill

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Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart

Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is out now.  View the Booker Prize Ceremony 2020: a Front Row Special on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ iPlayer
Main image:    Image credit: Martyn Pickersgill.  
Image to the left: thecover

The George Devine Award winner

The George Devine Award winner
Image: Daniel Ward, winner of the George Devine Award 2020, performing in his play The Canary and the crow. Image credit: The Other Richard

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