The Belfast born author Anna Burns has been shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, for her novel, Milkman.
The novel which is set in an unnamed Belfast features a young woman coming of age during the Troubles.
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The prize awards any novel originally written in English, and published in the UK and Ireland.
Sally Rooney's Normal People and Donal Ryan's From A Low and Quiet Sea had been on the long-list, but the Irish authors did not make it through to the shortlist stage.
The winner of the prize, worth £50 thousand pounds sterling, will be announced in London on October 16th.
The other authors on the six-strong list are from Canada, the US and the UK
The full list of shortlisted authors is as follows:
Anna Burns (Northern Ireland) - Milkman (Faber & Faber)
Esi Edugyan (Canada) - Washington Black (Serpent's Tail)
Daisy Johnson (UK) - Everything Under (Jonathan Cape)
Rachel Kushner (USA) - The Mars Room (Jonathan Cape)
Richard Powers (USA) - The Overstory (William Heinemann)
Robin Robertson (UK) - The Long Take (Picador)
