Anna Burns says her novels “wanted to come”, in the sense that she is not one for meticulous planning before she sits down to begin writing.
“I can’t demand anything of my writing. I have no idea when I turn up what is going to come. Except the characters,” Burns wrote for Britain’s The Guardian newspaper just before she was awarded the prize. The newspaper asked the six shortlisted authors for the 2018 Man Booker Prize for fiction to discuss the inspiration behind their work.
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