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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2020

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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2020

The 2020 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Douglas Stuart for SHUGGIE BAIN, the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Margaret Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drug epidemic is waiting in the wings. Click here to read more about Stuart and his blistering debut novel.

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2020 Winner

 
  • SHUGGIE BAIN by Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
     


2020 Shortlist

 
  • THE NEW WILDERNESS by Diane Cook (Oneworld Publications)
  • THIS MOURNABLE BODY by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)
  • BURNT SUGAR by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House)
  • THE SHADOW KING by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)
  • SHUGGIE BAIN by Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
  • REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)
     


2020 Longlist

 
  • THE NEW WILDERNESS by Diane Cook (Oneworld Publications)
  • THIS MOURNABLE BODY by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)
  • BURNT SUGAR by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House)
  • WHO THEY WAS by Gabriel Krauze (4th Estate, HarperCollins)
  • THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate, HarperCollins)
  • APEIROGON by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • THE SHADOW KING by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)
  • SUCH A FUN AGE by Kiley Reid (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • SHUGGIE BAIN by Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
  • REAL LIFE by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)      
  • REDHEAD BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus, Vintage)
  • LOVE AND OTHER THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS by Sophie Ward (Corsair, Little, Brown)
  • HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD by C Pam Zhang (Virago, Little, Brown)