Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart on Shuggie Bain

Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 9:46 a.m.

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\u2019s George Devine Award \u2013 the \xa315,000 prize for an original stage play.

Presenter: John Wilson\nProducer: Timothy Prosser

main image: Douglas Stuart\nImage credit: Martyn Pickersgill