Douglas Stuart himself emigrated to America, where he works in the fashion world. He has now completed a second novel: “I’ve been writing for many years, but people have only now known me.” He dedicates the Booker Prize to his former fellow townsmen the Glaswegians, “who always say things straightforward”. And he is proud to be the second Scotsman to win the Booker, after James Kelman in 1994 with “How late it was, how late it was”.
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