She delivers: Belfast author Anna Burns scoops Man Booker Prize for 'Milkman'

A first for the North: Anna Burns on stage at the Guildhall in London after she was awarded the Man Booker Prize last night. Photo: PRESS ASSOCIATION

Jill Lawless

Belfast author Anna Burns won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction last night with 'Milkman', a vibrant, violent story about men, women, conflict and power set during Northern Ireland's years of Catholic-Protestant violence.

Burns is the first writer from the North to win the £50,000 (€57,000) prize, which is open to English-language authors from around the world.