Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction from a six-member shortlist that included Indian-origin writer Avni Doshi’s ‘Burnt Sugar’.
- Douglas Stuart won the prize for his debut novel ‘Shuggie Bain’ which describes a boy growing up in Glasgow in the 1980s with a mother battling addiction.
- The £50,000 Booker Prize, first awarded in 1969, is considered one of the leading prizes for literary fiction written in English.
- The Booker prize is open to any novel written in English by an author of any nationality.
- The list of former winners features several of the literary giants of the last five decades: from Iris Murdoch to Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro to Hilary Mantel.
