Milkman
by Anna Burns
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2020 | Winner |
| Orwell Prize for Political Fiction | 2019 | Winner |
| Booker Prize | 2018 | Winner |
| National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)Fiction | 2018 | Winner |
About This Book
Anna Burns's Booker Prize-winning novel is narrated by an unnamed middle-sister in an unnamed city during an unnamed conflict that is unmistakably Northern Ireland during the Troubles. With relentless, darkly comic intensity, the novel traces the narrator's harassment by an older IRA paramilitary — the milkman — and the community's complicit silence. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2018 and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2019.
About the Author
Anna Burns is a Northern Irish novelist, the first author from Northern Ireland to win the Man Booker Prize. Born in Belfast during the height of the Troubles, she grew up in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast and draws heavily on this experience in her fiction. Milkman (2018) won the Man Booker Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and the National Book Award for Translated Literature (as it was already in English). Read more →
