Anna Burns is an acclaimed author from Northern Ireland, born on March 7, 1962. She is best known for her novel Milkman, which has received numerous prestigious awards including the 2018 Booker Prize, the 2019 Orwell Prize for political fiction, and the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award.

She was born in Belfast and moved to London in 1987. Her first novel, No Bones, provides an account of a girl's life growing up in Belfast during the Troubles. This novel won the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize.