Anna Burns

Anna Burns is a Northern Irish novelist from Belfast, raised in the Ardoyne district during the Troubles. She is the author of the novels No Bones (2001), Little Constructions (2007) and Milkman (2018), and the novella Mostly Hero (2014).

Milkman won the 2018 Booker Prize, making Burns the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the award, as well as the 2019 Orwell Prize for political fiction and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2021.