Northern Irish writer Anna Burns wins Booker Prize

AFP  |  London 

has became the Irish writer, and the first woman since 2013, to win Britain's renowned Man for her novel "Milkman".

Judges of the annual award praised the work, an exploration of Northern Ireland's three decades of sectarian violence told through the voice of a young woman, as "utterly distinctive".

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First Published: Wed, October 17 2018. 02:40 IST