The awarded Of the 2018 Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman, became the first Northern Irish author to win the prize.The Man Booker Prize was established in 1969. The winner Anna Burns receives £50,000, while each of the shortlisted authors is awarded £2,500. Both the winner is Anna burns and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a worldwide readership plus an increase in book sales.
was become the first Northern Irish people 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 by a powerful man. The experimental novel, Burns’s third, is narrated by an unnamed 18-year-old girl, known as “middle sister”, who is being pursued by a much older paramilitary figure, the milkman. It is “incredibly original”, according to the Booker’s chair of read more