Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author and fashion designer. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It won both the Debut of the Year and the overall Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. Shuggie Bain is to be translated into thirty-eight languages. In April 2022, Stuart published his second novel, Young Mungo. He is currently at work on new writing. His short stories “Found Wanting” and “The Englishman” were published in the New Yorker. His essay “Poverty, Anxiety, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature” was published by Lit Hub.