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Anna Burns

Date of Birth: 1 January 1970
Address: Sussex, United Kingdom

Anna Burns is an Irish author. She was born in Belfast and grew up in the working-class Catholic district of Ardoyne. She moved to London in 1987. Her first novel, No Bones, is a gripping account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles. From 2014, she has lived in Sussex on the south coast of England. Among the novels that depict the Troubles within the Literature of Northern Ireland, No Bones is considered an important work, and has been compared to Dubliners by James Joyce for its capture of the everyday language of the people of Belfast. In 2001, No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize presented by the Royal Society of Literature for the best regional novel of the year in the UK and Ireland. In 2018, Burns won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Milkman making her the first Northern Irish writer to win the coveted award. Following the ceremony, Graywolf Press announced that it would publish Milkman in the U.S. on December 11, 2018. Milkman is an experimental novel in which the narrator is an unnamed 18-year-old girl known as Middle Sister, who is pursued by a much older paramilitary figure known as the Milkman.

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