^ a b 'Anna Burns wins 50th Man Booker Prize with Milkman! | The Man Booker Prizes'.^ Lucy Ellmann, 'Trigger happy,' The Guardian, 9 June 2007.The Literature of Northern Ireland: Spectral Borderlands. 'Anna Burns: I had to get myself some distance away from the Troubles'.

^ Information from the book cover of No Bones.

^ 'Milkman author wins €100,000 literary award'.

2020 International Dublin Literary Award, for Milkman.

2020 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize 2018/2019, for Milkman.

2019 Women's Prize for Fiction, shortlisted.

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Winner ( Milkman).

2002 Orange Prize, Shortlisted ( No Bones).

2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, Winner ( No Bones).

In 2021, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). Milkman is set during The Troubles military conflict in the 1970s, in which the narrator is an unnamed 18-year-old girl known as 'middle sister' who is stalked by an older paramilitary figure, Milkman. After the ceremony, Graywolf Press announced that it would publish Milkman in the U.S. In 2018, Burns won the Booker Prize for her third novel Milkman, making her the first Northern Irish writer to win the award. It is a darkly comic and ironic tale centered on a woman from a tightly-knit family of criminals on a mission of retribution. Her second novel, Little Constructions, was published in 2007 by Fourth Estate (an imprint of HarperCollins). 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 capturing the Belfast population's everyday language. No Bones won the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize presented by the Royal Society of Literature for the best regional novel of the year in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The dysfunctional family in the novel symbolizes the Northern Ireland political situation. Her first novel, No Bones, is an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles.

As of 2014, she lives in East Sussex, on the south English coast. She was born in Belfast and raised in the working-class Catholic district of Ardoyne. Her novel Milkman won the 2018 Booker Prize, the 2019 Orwell Prize for political fiction, and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. Anna Burns FRSL (born 7 March 1962) is an author from Northern Ireland.

Anna burns books