Coming of Age: Alex Pugsley & Douglas Stuart

Alex Pugsley, Douglas Stuart and Bert Archer

Coming of Age: Alex Pugsley & Douglas Stuart

Alex Pugsley, Douglas Stuart and Bert Archer

12:30pm

Saturday, October 31, 2020

45 mins

A big congratulations to Douglas Stuart on winning the 2020 Booker Prize for his book Shuggie Bain! To celebrate, check out this interview from #FestofAuthors20 with Alex and Douglas.

Join Canadian writer and filmmaker Alex Pugsley with Scottish writer Douglas Stuart as they talk about coming of age stories, drugs, addiction and the impact of local cultures. Stuart recently published his debut book, Shuggie Bain. The book is a fictional take on growing up in public housing in Glasgow during the 1980s, during the peak of the city’s drug epidemic. Pugsley presents the first in a series of five autobiographical novels, Aubrey McKee, a collection of connected short stories about a boy coming of age in 1970-80s Halifax.

Interviewer: Bert Archer

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A big congratulations to Douglas Stuart on winning the 2020 Booker Prize for his book Shuggie Bain! To celebrate, check out this interview from #FestofAuthors20 with Alex and Douglas.

Join Canadian writer and filmmaker Alex Pugsley with Scottish writer Douglas Stuart as they talk about coming of age stories, drugs, addiction and the impact of local cultures. Stuart recently published his debut book, Shuggie Bain. The book is a fictional take on growing up in public housing in Glasgow during the 1980s, during the peak of the city’s drug epidemic. Pugsley presents the first in a series of five autobiographical novels, Aubrey McKee, a collection of connected short stories about a boy coming of age in 1970-80s Halifax.

Interviewer: Bert Archer

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Featured Authors

Alex Pugsley
Alex Pugsley is a writer and filmmaker originally from Nova Scotia. He is the co-author of the novel Kay Darling. A winner of multiple awards, including the Journey Prize, his fiction has appeared in Brick, The Walrus and McSweeney’s, among other publications, and for the last two years in Best Canadian Stories. As a screenwriter or story editor, he’s worked on over 170 episodes of television, writing for performers such as Dan Aykroyd, Mark McKinney and Michael Cera. Recently he wrote and directed the film Dirty Singles, which was nominated for Best Canadian Feature at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

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Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart is a Scottish-American author. His New York Times-bestselling debut novel Shuggie Bain won the 2020 Booker Prize and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was the winner of two British Book Awards, including Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, PEN/Hemingway Award, National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, Kirkus Prize, as well as several other literary awards. Stuart’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker and Literary Hub. Douglas Stuart’s Festival appearance is generously supported by Scottish Books International.

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Bert Archer
Bert Archer is a writer in Toronto, a once and future traveler who enjoys reading. Though he appreciates Tiktok, he only posts on Instagram @world.of.bert.

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12:30pm

Saturday, October 31

45 mins

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