The Scottish-American winner of the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction says he’s fascinated with translators’ work on his book.
Douglas Stuart. Image: Porter Anderson
‘Not the Experience of Most Debut Novelists’
By the time Douglas Stuart was named the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction winner becoming only the second Scottish work to win the honor in 50 years
Shuggie Bain already had sold into 22 territories and/or languages.
Pan Macmillan’s Camilla Eleworthy in London confirms to
Publishing Perspectives that the sales to date have included the main European territories with the exception of Finland, as well as Arabic, Croatian, Japanese, and Hebrew. In Europe, those sales include a translation into Polish by Krzysztof Cieślik for Wydawnictwo Poznańskie and Sophie Zeitz’s translation into German for Hanser Verlag, both for 2021.