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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: -Booker Prize Winner:-The Booker Prize 2022 was given to Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilak for his second book, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. At a ceremony in London on October 17, 2022, the 47-year-old novelist will receive the literary prize of £50, 000 (GBP), following Michael Ondaatje in 1992.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first Indian to win the Booker Prize was the author and activist Arundhati Roy. Her first novel ‘God of Small Things’ was also the best-selling book by a non-expat Indian novelist. She started writing the book in 1992 and completed it four years later, in 1996.

Detailed explanation-4: -Milkman won several awards, including the 2018 Booker Prize for Fiction, marking the first time a Northern Irish writer has been awarded the prize. The novel also won the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, as well as the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award.

Detailed explanation-5: -Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell with the novel Tomb of Sand, winner of the International Booker Prize 2022.