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Elected: 2021
Image credit: Eleni-Stefanou
Anna Burns was born in Belfast. Her first book, No Bones, was published by Flamingo and won the Royal Society of Literature’s Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 2001. Her second book, Little Constructions, was published by Fourth Estate in 2006. Her third book, Milkman, was published by Faber & Faber in 2018 and won the Man Booker Prize 2018, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2018, The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2019, The Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize 2018-2019, and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2020. Anna Burns lives in East Sussex.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.