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My Interview with Booker Prize Winner Anna Burns

December 15, 2018December 16, 2018 / Paul McVeigh Writer / Leave a comment

Anna Burns: The Booker winner on why she is unable to write

She went from poverty to bestseller status with ‘Milkman’. Now, chronic pain prevents her from writing.

My interview with The Man Booker Prize-winner Anna Burns is up on Irish Times Books today.

In it, she reveals to me her struggle with constant pain and her fears about ever being able to write again.

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