Scottish author Douglas Stuart has won the 50,000-pound ($88,250) Booker Prize, for his debut novel Shuggie Bain, dedicating the win to his mother.
He is the second Scot to win in the Prize's history, after James Kelman in 1994.
The Booker Prize was announced in a socially distanced, live-streamed ceremony from London's Roundhouse, featuring appearances by former US president Barack Obama and The Duchess of Cornwall, and former Booker Prize winners Kazuo Ishiguro, Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.
Stuart's book won from a shortlist that was notable for having four debut novels, and no 'big names'. Longlisted author Hilary Mantel, who won twice previously, didn't make the shortlist.
Shuggie Bain is about the relationship between a young boy, Shuggie, and his mother Agnes.
The novel was inspired by Stuart's own life, growing up in working class 1980s Glasgow with a mother who suffered addiction and who died when he was still a child.
"My mother is in every page of this book," Stuart said, accepting the award.
"Without her, I wouldn't be here — my work wouldn't be here."
"I wanted to tell the story of what it was like to grow up queer in Glasgow; to grow up with a parent who you love but you couldn't save."
Kate Evans of RN's The Bookshelf wrote of Shuggie Bain:
This is a novel you can hear as you read it: heavy with Glasgow accents and extravagant with swearing; cursing unemployment and useless husbands and lack of food and a woman who looks at your man the wrong way. It also has a smell, of the dregs of beer and last night's grease, poverty and sadness.
More to follow.
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2020-11-19 20:21:00Z
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