Anna Burns won the prestigious Man Booker Prize
for fiction “Milkman” a vibrant,
violent story about men, women, conflict and power set during Northern
Ireland’s years of Catholic-Protestant violence.
Ms. Burns is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the
50,000-pound ($66,000) prize, which is open to English-language authors from
around the world. She received her trophy from Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall,
during a black-tie ceremony at London’s medieval Guildhall.
Milkman is narrated
by a bookish young woman dealing with an older man who uses family ties, social
pressure and political loyalties as weapons of sexual coercion and harassment.
It is set in the 1970s, but was published amid the global eruption of sexual
misconduct allegations that sparked the #MeToo movement.
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