Question

1. What did Douglas wish to learn at college?

2. What is the name of Douglas Stuart’s first novel that received the 2020 Booker Prize?

3. What was the book praised for?

4. Who was the first Scottish author to win The Booker Prize?

5. Where was the second novel Loch Awe set in?​

Answer 1

Answer:

swimming

Shuggie Bain

James Kelman

Douglas Stuart

Glasgow

Answer 2

Answer:

1). Douglas was ten or eleven years old when he decided to learn swimming. He could swim in the Yakima River or the Y.M.C.A. pool at Yakima.

2). The name of Douglas Stuart’s first novel that received the 2020 Booker Prize is Shuggie Bain.

3). Shuggie Bain is the debut novel by Scottish-American writer Douglas Stuart, published in 2020. It tells the story of the youngest of the three children, Shuggie, growing up with his alcoholic mother, Agnes, in the 1980s, in Thatcher-era post-industrial working-class Glasgow, Scotland.

4). The first Scottish author to win The Booker Prize was author Douglas Stuart.

5). The second novel Loch Awe set in Glasgow.