BOOKER Prize-winning author Anna Burns is to come to the Lyric Theatre Belfast next month for a special event.
The event on April 15 will be jointly hosted by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Faber Members, in association with the Lyric.
`In conversation with' acclaimed Irish author and fellow Booker-winner Anne Enright, Ms Burns will read extracts from Milkman and give an insight into life growing up Belfast, her creative inspirations, and her much talked about breakthrough novel.
Milkman is her third full-length novel, winning the author her first major award. She is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the prize.
Born in Belfast and now based in East Sussex, the novel draws on the writer's experience of Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
"I feel excited and joyous to be coming to my home town of Belfast to take part in this event," she said.
"It is an honour to be the first Northern Irish winner of the Man Booker Prize and to have the chance to share this achievement with the place I was born and grew up in. I am delighted to find that my book has spoken, not only to those of my generation, but also to younger people who weren't even born during the era in which the book is set."
