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Read the following passage and answer the questions below: Douglas Stuart was horn in Sight hill, a housing estate in Glasgow, Scotland. He was the youngest of three siblings, He received a bachelor's degree from the Scottish College of Textiles and a master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London. He had no formal education in literature and notes that while he wanted to study English literature in college, he was discouraged from choosing the subject by a teacher who mentioned that it would "not suit someone from his hackground," resulting in him subsequently studying textiles instead. He moved to New York City at the age of 24 to begin a career in fashion design. He worked for many brands, including Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Banana Republicand Jlack Spade, for more than 20 years. Stuart balanced his writing with his design job, It is noted that he started writing his first novel when he was balancing 12-hour shifts as a senior director of design at the Banana Republic.Before his first novel being published, his works were featured on The New Yorker and Litub. His first novel, Shuggie Bain, won the 2020 Boker Prize, chosen by a judging panel comprie Margaret Busby (chair), Lee Child, Sameer Rahim, LemnSissay, and Emily Wilson. Stuan is the second Scottish author to win the Booker Prize in its 51-year history after it was awarded in 1994 to Jumes Kelman for How Late It Was, How Late, which book Stuart has credited with changing his life since it was "one of the first times he had seen his people and dialect on the page", Stuart said: "When James won in the mid-90s, Scottish voices were seen as disruptive and outside the norm. Shuggie Bain was also longlisted for the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a finalist for both the 2020 Kirkus Prizcand the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. However, when Stuart wrote the novel, responses from publishers were not as encouraging, with the book being rejected by 32 US publishing companiesas well as a dozen in the UK, before it was finially sold to American independent publisher Grove Atlantic, who published it in hardeover on 11 February 2020. Shuggie Bain was later published in the United Kingdom by the Picador imprint of Pan Macnillan. The novel received generally favcurable review coverage once it was published. The book was praised for its authentic portrayal of post-industrial working-class Glasgow of the 1980s and carly 1990s, and also for his capture of the "wry, indefatigable Glaswegian voice in all its various shades of wit, anger and hope. Speaking at the Booker Prize award ceremony, Margaret Busby, chair of the panel, noted that the book was destined to be a classic, and went on to describe the work as a "moving. immersive and nuanced portrait of a tight-knit social world, its people and its values. In November 2020, Stuart revealed that he had finished his second novel, Lach Awe, also set in mid-1990s Glasgow. The book is a love story between two young men, set against the backdrop af post- industrial Glasgow, with its territorial gangs, and divisions across sectarian lines. In his words, the book is about "toxic masculinity" and the violence that can stem from pressures on working-class boys to "man-up" 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?​

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1. Douglas wish to learn English literature at college.

2. Shuggie Bain

3. The book praised for excellence in fiction.

4. Jumes Kelman.

5. Loch Awe was set in 1990s at Galsgoe.