Milkman
British novelist, born 1962. Won the Booker Prize in 2018.
Milkman is a 2018 novel by Anna Burns. It won the Booker Prize in 2018.
On 3 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Anna Burns
- First published
- 2018
- Length
- 368 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 2018
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2019
- British Book Awards Fiction shortlist, 2019
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Political, Feminist, Coming of age
Is Milkman worth reading?
3 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Booker Prize and the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2018) | Winner | See the list |
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2019) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2019) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Milkman
The edition we link to is the Faber & Faber paperback (2018), 368 pages.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber (paperback, 2018)
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780571338757
How critics, prizes and readers rate Milkman
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 47% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work