Anna Burns FRSL (born 7 March 1962) is an author from Northern Ireland.

[4] No Bones won the 2001 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize presented by the Royal Society of Literature for the best regional novel of the year in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Among the novels that depict the Troubles within the Literature of Northern Ireland, No Bones is considered an important work and has been compared to Dubliners by James Joyce for capturing the Belfast population's everyday language.

It is a darkly comic and ironic tale centred on a woman from a tightly-knit family of criminals on a mission of retribution.

[6] In 2018, Burns won the Booker Prize for her third novel Milkman, making her the first Northern Irish writer to win the award.