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Anna Burns

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Anna Burns

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1962-03-07 (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
国籍
Irish
言語
English
宗教
Catholic
居住地歴
Belfast (birth and raised, Ardoyne district) → London (from 1987) → East Sussex (as of 2014)

経歴

職業
Novelist
活動期間
2001年〜2024年
所属
Royal Society of Literature (Fellow, FRSL)
ノミネート
Orange Prize 2002 shortlist (No Bones), Women's Prize for Fiction 2019 shortlist (Milkman)

学歴

St. Gemma's High School
国: United Kingdom

受賞歴

Booker Prize
2018
対象作品: Milkman
主催: Booker Prize Foundation
結果: Winner
Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
2001
対象作品: No Bones
部門: 最優秀地域小説
主催: Royal Society of Literature
結果: Winner
Orwell Prize
2019
対象作品: Milkman
部門: 政治フィクション
結果: Winner
International Dublin Literary Award
2020
対象作品: Milkman
結果: Winner
National Book Critics Circle Award
2018
対象作品: Milkman
部門: フィクション
結果: Winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

No Bones

2001年 Novel

Account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles. Dysfunctional family symbolizes Northern Ireland politics.

The TroublesBelfast everyday lifeFamily dysfunction

Little Constructions

2007年 Novel

Darkly comic tale of a woman from a criminal family on a retribution mission.

Criminal familyRetributionIrony

Milkman

2018年 Novel

Set during the Troubles in 1970s, unnamed 18-year-old 'middle sister' stalked by paramilitary 'Milkman'.

The TroublesStalkingAnonymityFemale perspective

Mostly Hero

2014年 Novella

作風・主題

文体
Belfast vernacularIntrospective narrativeSatire
頻出モチーフ
Northern Ireland conflictFamily dynamicsEveryday terror

評価・遺産

First Northern Irish Booker winner with Milkman. Key in Troubles literature.

豆知識

  • First Northern Irish Booker Prize winner
  • From Catholic working-class background