“Their creative imaginings would reach my ears slander by gravitational slander. “All this made sense within the context of our intricately coiled, overly secretive, hyper-gossipy, puritanical yet indecent, totalitarian district,” she writes. The whole town is engaged in a culturally enforced conspiracy of gaslighting. “At the time, age eighteen,” she says, “having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were - if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being leveled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there?” What’s worse, her community, even her family, assumes that she’s to blame for enticing the milkman away from his wife. But what makes him so destructive to the narrator’s mental health is that she has no vocabulary with which to resist or even describe what’s happening to her. The milkman is a character of mysterious power amid a vast network of spies, bombmakers and killers. Winner of the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award ( Milkman). Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Nominee ( Milkman) National Book Critics Circle Award 2019 Nominee ( Milkman) Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize ( Milkman) Shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize ( No Bones) England is the country over the water, and Ireland the country over the border. Winner of the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize The two sides of the political conflict are referred to as renouncers of the state and defenders of the state. Anna Burns Milkman and Patrick Radden Keefes Say Nothing win political fiction and. Her first novel, No Bones, is an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles. Anna Burns Two books about Northern Irish Troubles win Orwell prize 2019.

She was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1987.

Awards: Winner of the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize Shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize ( No Bones) Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize ( Milkman) National Book Critics Circle Award 2019 Nominee ( Milkman) Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 Nominee ( Milkman) Winner of the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award ( Milkman) Anna Burns (born 1962) is an Irish author. Her first novel, No Bones, is an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles. Anna Burns (born 1962) is an Irish author. She is the author of three novels - No Bones, Little Constructions and Milkman - and of the novella Mostly Hero.

Anna burns books