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
Anna Burns was born in Belfast. She is the author of three novels – No Bones, Little Constructions and Milkman – and of the novella Mostly Hero
No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Milkman has, to date, won the 2018 Booker Prize, 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.
- Born
Winner The Booker Prize 2018
- By
- Anna Burns
- Published by
- Faber & Faber
Anna Burns offers a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences
