Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a NY Times bestselling author whose work has been translated in to over forty languages. His debut novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It was named both the Overall Book of the Year, and Debut of the Year at the British Book Awards, and was selected by the Sunday Times as one of ‘the 25 best novels of the 21st century’.

His next novel, Young Mungo, was a Sunday Times #1 bestseller and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. His latest novel John of John will publish in May 2026.

His essays on gender, class and conformity have feature on Lit Hub and his short stories are published in The New Yorker.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Glasgow and Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. In a previous life he was a designer for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, and The Gap. Since 2000, he has lived and worked in New York City, although he spends as much time in Glasgow as he can.