![]() ![]() ![]() Milkman also won the inaugural Orwell Prize for political fiction, the 2018 Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and landed on shortlists for both the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Rathbones Folio Prize.Ĭanadian Esi Edugyan made the 10-book shortlist for her novel Washington Black, an epic novel that looks at race and identity from a historical fiction perspective. ![]() ![]() The six-member international jury was comprised of Irish editor and columnist Niall MacMonagle, Scottish author and editor Zoë Strachan, Barcelona-based writer and translator Yannick Garcia, British writer and journalist Cathy Rentzenbrink, Indian-born translator Shreela Ghosh and Dublin-based professor Chris Morash. "Its brilliance lies in its compelling, questioning voice, its strong individual, resilient narrator, its evocation of place, its threatening and sinister atmosphere, its description of what Burns calls lives of 'nervous caution.'" The reader becomes the world of the book," the jury said in a statement. Once experienced, Anna Burns' Milkman will never be forgotten. The 25th Winner of the #DubLitAward is delighted to announce #Milkman by Irish author Anna Burns as the 2020 International #DubLitAward, published by & congratulations, /e3KxFh5vr4- this book is an immersive experience. ![]()
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