(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 14, 2018 British author Anna Burns holds her book Milkman during a photocall at the Royal Festival Hall in London, ahead of Tuesdays announcement of the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. - Author Anna Burns on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 became the first Northern Irish writer, and the first woman since 2013, to win Britains renowned Man Booker Prize for her novel Milkman. (Photo by Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)
Anna Burns won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday with Milkman, a vibrant, violent story about men, women, conflict and power set during Northern Ireland’s years of Catholic-Protestant violence (1968-1998).
Burns, 56, is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the £50,000 (RM270,000) prize, which is open to English-language authors from around the world. She is also the first woman in five years to win the Booker after Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner, at the age of 28, in 2013.
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