Stuart, 44, insisted Shuggie Bain was 'definitely a work of fiction', but also admitted that he is 'the queer son of a single mother who lost her battle to addiction'.
Margaret Thatcher's policies have put people out of work and Shuggie's mother Agnes battles alcohol addiction. Shuggie Bain tells the story of a boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow. This year's Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart grew up in Glasgow before moving to New York to begin a career in fashion design. The implication was that, as Black, Banville was slumming it.
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The author pens crime books under the pseudonym Benjamin Black and created the Quirke series in 2006, which was later adapted for television.Īppearing at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in 2009, he antagonised the audience and other crime-writers by revealing that he wrote his crime books much more quickly than his other novels. He also trashed Ian McEwan’s novel Saturday in The New York Times, labelling it 'a dismayingly bad book'.īanville has also won the Franz Kafka Prize and the Irish PEN Award. ‘Salman Rushdie is not of any consequence to me,’ he responded. This is not the first time Banville has launched a scathing public assault, having previously targeted fellow authors Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan with his withering remarks.ĭuring an appearance at a literary festival in Cork in 2012, Banville was asked if he had been influenced by Rushdie. 'You see people kneeling in the street, holding up their fists - that's not going to do anything for black people.' Why were they asleep for so long? The same injustices were going on. The Hay Festival Winter Weekend was held virtually this year, and featured speakers including Dawn French, Elton John and Arsene Wenger.īanville won the Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea, which was adapted into a film in 2013 starring Ciarán Hinds, Charlotte Rampling and Rufus Sewell.Īsked if he could win the Booker today, Banville said: 'I would not like to be starting out now, certainly.
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