Graywolf Publishing is the Ms. Burns publisher and it is the first time in their company’s history that they’ve had an author win the prize. Fiona McCraw, Graywolf publisher said: “We are all over the moon that Anna Burns has won the Man Booker Prize, the first time in Graywolf history that an author we have published has had this honor.”
Faber and Faber the U.K. publisher of Milkman has gone back to press with an additional 45,000 print run of the novel.
The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for five decades.