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Douglas Stuart receives a Golden Pan award as Shuggie Bain sales reach a million
Douglas Stuart has received a Golden Pan award from his publishers Pan Macmillan, as sales of his debut novel Shuggie Bain (Picador) reached a million across all formats and including export sales (world territories bar America and Canada).
Stuart was presented with the Golden Pan trophy at Pan Macmillan’s offices in London on 21st April. Shuggie Bain was only the fifth first novel to win The Booker Prize, and was also shortlisted for the National Book Award in the US, a double achieved by no other book. It won the Fiction Debut of the Year and the overall Book of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards, and Waterstones chose it as its Scottish Book of the Year.
The Golden Pan statuette is an award given by Pan Macmillan to their authors for books that sell over a million copies, and is based on a Roman sculpture of the satyr-god Pan in the British Museum.
The first Golden Pan was first awarded posthumously in 1965 to the Fleming estate for sales of a million copies of Casino Royale. Golden Pans were a staple of the British book industry for 35 years and the list of recipients includes Grace Metalious for Peyton Place, Arthur Haley for Hotel and Jack Higgins for The Eagle has Landed. In 1971, a Golden Pan was awarded to Otto Frank, for sales of a million copies of his daughter’s The Diary of Anne Frank. The award went into hibernation with the rise of e-books, but the revival of the Golden Pan includes a change in criteria: the awards are now given for a million copies in sales across all formats.
Joanna Prior, c.e.o. of Pan Macmillan, said Douglas was “joining a select group of fabulous, bestselling authors with this award” and “couldn’t be more deserving”. She added: “Everyone here from across Pan Macmillan is so proud of everything that you have achieved with Shuggie Bain and with your new triumphant novel, Young Mungo."
