Award-winning author, Anna Burns, received her City Lit Lifetime Fellowship Award from Chair of the Board of Governors, Lindsay Nicholson, on Wednesday 1 March.
Anna received her Fellowship during a lunch at The Fenchurch building (The Walkie-Talkie) in London. Chair of the Board of Governors Lindsay Nicholson presented her the Fellowship Award.
She’s an award-winning author and now Fellow of City Lit. We are honoured that former student, Anna Burns, has accepted a City Lit Lifetime Fellowship.
From City Lit Student to Booker Prize Winner
Anna Burns is a former student at City Lit. She studied fiction writing at City Lit and attended singing and dancing classes. The award-winning Belfast-born author has published three novels: No Bones, Little Constructions and Milkman. Milkman won the Man Booker Prize 2018, the 2019 Orwell Prize for political fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award in 2020 - and it was also shortlisted for both the Women’s Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize.
City Lit Fellowships
City Lit Fellowships are awarded to individuals who have shown a significant commitment to adult education in the United Kingdom and who have provided support and inspiration to City Lit and our students. Other City Lit Fellows include acclaimed author Malorie Blackman OBE, mental health campaigner Ruby Wax OBE, and prominent politicians Sir Vince Cable and Nick Boles MP.
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