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Food bank and housing charity thank Booker winner Anna Burns

Written By Unknown on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | 2:01 PM

Author mentioned charity that helped her in prizewinning novel’s acknowledgments

A charity and food bank have expressed their gratitude to the winner of the Man Booker prize, Anna Burns, after she took the unusual step of thanking them in the acknowledgments section of her novel.

Burns, who is the first Northern Irish author to win the prize, received the award for Milkman, a novel set in an unnamed city in Northern Ireland which tells the story of a young woman sexually harassed by a powerful man against the backdrop of the Troubles.

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