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    Anna Burns FRSL (born 7 March 1962) is an author from Northern Ireland. Her novel Milkman won the 2018 Booker Prize , the 2019 Orwell Prize for political fiction, and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award .

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  2. Apr 14, 2023 · Anna Burns’ 2018 Booker Prize-winning novel Milkman is a powerful and urgent depiction of life in Northern Ireland during the 30-year conflict. The voice of 'middle sister', a Belfast teenager who is accused of an affair with a paramilitary, is a mirror of the society of suspicion, surveillance and groupthink that Burns herself grew up in. The essay explains how the book captured the experience of living under totalitarian conditions and the culture of fear.

  3. Oct 17, 2018 · W inning the Man Booker prize is clearly a life-changing event, but never more so than in the case of Tuesday night’s surprise success, Anna Burns, who became the first Northern Irish writer to ...

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  4. Nov 29, 2018 · Nov. 29, 2018. BRIGHTON, England — Anna Burns sounded almost giddy one recent Monday as we sat in a restaurant here in Brighton, on England’s southern coast. The week before she had won the ...

  5. Oct 16, 2018 · Anna Burns has become the first Northern Irish author to win the Man Booker prize, taking the £50,000 award for Milkman, her timely, Troubles-set novel about a young woman being sexually harassed ...

  6. Anna Burns is a Belfast-born novelist who won the 2018 Booker Prize for her novel Milkman. She has also written three other books and a novella, and lives in East Sussex, England.

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  8. Oct 16, 2018 · Anna Burns, author of Milkman, which was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction on Tuesday. For the first time, a writer from Northern Ireland has won the prestigious Man Booker Award. The prize ...

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