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Detailed explanation-1: -Anna Burns won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for her novel “Milkman,” which is narrated by an unnamed 18-year-old girl living in 1970s Northern Ireland who is coerced into a relationship with a mysterious older married man with ties to a paramilitary group.

Detailed explanation-2: -The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury) was crowned the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man Booker Prize, announced on Sunday 8 July 2018. The Golden Man Booker winner was revealed at the closing event of the Man Booker 50 Festival in Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre.

Detailed explanation-3: -The autobiographical novel, about the lonely gay son of an alcoholic mother in 1980s Scotland, was one of four debut books in this year’s shortlist.

Detailed explanation-4: -The International Booker Prize is awarded to a book which is translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland. It is different from the Man Booker Prize, which is awarded to a work written in English, and has been won in the past by Indians.