Anna Burns has become the first Northern Irish writer and the first woman since 2013 to win Britain's renowned Man Booker Prize for her novel 'Milkman'. <br />”<br />”Milkman is an exploration of Northern Ireland's three decades of sectarian violence told through the voice of a young woman. The novel chronicles the struggles of a middle sister in a family as she confronts rumour, social pressures and politics amid violent sectarian divisions in her community.<br />”<br />”The judges of the annual award praised Anna Burns' work as utterly distinctive.<br />”<span style="color: #222222;"><br />”Burns was born in the Northern Irish capital Belfast in 1962 and now lives in southern England. She had previously authored two novels – 'No Bones' and 'Little Constructions'.</span><br />