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Anna Burns

Anna Burns

Born: 7 March 1962

Anna Burns was born in Belfast. She is the author of three novels – No Bones, Little Constructions and Milkman – as well as the novella Mostly Hero

No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Milkman won the Booker Prize in 2018, the 2019 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the International Dublin Literary Award 2020. It was also shortlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Rathbone’s Folio Prize. Anna Burns lives in East Sussex, England.

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Soldiers in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, August 1969

How Anna Burns’ Milkman perfectly articulated the experience of life during the Troubles

Colin Crummy, who grew up in South Armagh, explains how Anna Burns’ Booker winner Milkman held up a mirror to a world of suspicion, surveillance and groupthink

Anna Burns winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize

Anna Burns Q&A

In this Man Booker Prize 2018 longlist interview Anna Burns tells us her favourite Man Booker-winning novel and what her next story after Milkman will be

Street view of Northern Ireland

Reading guide: Milkman by Anna Burns

Set in an unnamed city where it’s dangerous to be interesting, Burns’ Booker Prize-winning novel is rife with gossip and hearsay

Woman jogging near a river

An extract from Milkman by Anna Burns

Winning the Booker Prize in 2018, Anna Burns’ Milkman depicts a community filled with rumours as a young woman tries to avoid being seen as anything but interesting

Milkman

Milkman

Winner of The Booker Prize 2018

By: Anna Burns
Published by: Faber & Faber

Anna Burns offers a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate ignorance. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences