Milkman delivers Man Booker Prize for British author

LONDON - Novelist Anna Burns from Northern Ireland won the Man Booker Prize for fiction for her work Milkman, it was announced on Tuesday evening.

The award, one of the most prestigious in international literature and open to authors writing in the English language, was presented to the 56-year-old at a ceremony in the Guildhall in the heart of the City of London.

Burns is the first author from Northern Ireland to win the prize.