Anna Burns

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Anna Burns (born 1962 in Belfast ) is a Northern Irish writer.

life and work

View of Ardoyne (2010)

Anna Burns was born in Belfast in 1962 and grew up in the predominantly Catholic and Irish nationalist Ardoyne district, a working-class district in the north of the Northern Irish capital. Her experiences there flowed into her first novel No Bones , published in 2001, which is about a girl growing up in Belfast during the " Troubles ". In 1987 Burns moved to London to attend university. She started writing in her mid-30s. Burns lives in Notting Hill (London) and in East Sussex in the south of England (as of 2018).

Burns' third novel Milkman , written in 2014, was awarded the 50th Man Booker Prize in 2018 after a unanimous vote of the jury , making the award for the first time in its history to a person from Northern Ireland. The novel, which was initially rejected by several publishers, takes place for two months in the 1970s in an undesignated location marked by military conflicts (Belfast) and is about the eighteen-year-old, nameless narrator, the “middle sister”. A nameless, much older, married man, a paramilitary leader, known only by the nickname "Milkman", intrudes on her and spies on her without being physical. The narrator describes the reactions in her environment, in which there are people with borderline behavior and those who fall out of the ordinary. The protagonist learns to see things as they are.

Awards and nominations

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gillian Halliday: Northern Ireland stores sell out of Belfast author's Man Booker novel as eager fans snap up book , belfasttelegraph.co.uk, October 19, 2018, accessed October 22, 2018
  2. ↑ Anna Burns on fantasticfiction.com, accessed September 21, 2018
  3. ↑ Anna Burns: I had to get myself some distance away from the Troubles , irishtimes.com, September 13, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2018
  4. ↑ Milkman, Anna Burns at faber.co.uk, July 24, 2018, accessed September 21, 2018
  5. ↑ Frederick Studemann: Lessons from the powder keg , Interview, in: Financial Times, October 20, 2018, pp. L and A 9
  6. ↑ Claire Kilroy: Milkman by Anna Burns review - creepy invention at heart of an original, funny novel , theguardian.com, May 31, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018
  7. ↑ Anna Burns wins 50th Man Booker Prize with Milkman! , themanbookerprize.com, October 16, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018
  8. ↑ "Milkman" on themanbookerprize.com, accessed on September 21, 2018
  9. ↑ Claire Armitstead: Milkman is a bold choice but it's unlikely to please booksellers , theguardian.com, October 16, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018
  10. ↑ Anna Burns wins Man Booker prize for 'incredibly original' Milkman , theguardian.com, October 16, 2018, accessed October 17, 2018
  11. ↑ Lisa Allardice: Interview: 'It's nice to feel I'm solvent. That's a huge gift ': Anna Burns on her life-changing Booker win , theguardian.com, October 17, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018
  12. ↑ Porter Anderson: Northern Ireland's Anna Burns Wins 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction , publishingperspectives.com, October 16, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018
  13. ↑ David Sexton: Milkman by Anna Burns - review: a fine prize winner that will test its readers , standard.co.uk, October 25, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018
  14. ↑ Zoë Apostolides: Primal times , review, in: Financial Times , October 13, 2018, pp. L and A 11
personal data
SURNAME Burns, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast