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Shuggie Bain author Douglas Stuart I never expected the book to be publishedâ but it ended up winning the Booker Prize
Douglas Stuart Writing a Booker Prize winning novel is not something that happens overnight. For Douglas Stuart it was the culmination of more than 12 years of writing on themes remembered from his childhood and youth in Glasgow. The New York based Glaswegian said he didn’t set out to write a book that would be published, never mind win the most prestigious literary prize in the UK. Speaking to the Glasgow Times, from his home in the USA, he explained how it came about.