Anna Burns, 2018 Booker Prize: Part of her writing process involves simply waiting for stories and characters to appear and give themselves to her

“It was…labeled an ‘experimental novel’ because its characters are nameless…

“ ‘I don’t understand,’ said Burns, when asked why it had picked up such an awkward label. ‘Is it the whole nameless thing? Is it really difficult? The book just didn’t want names.’ ”

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“Part of her writing process involves simply waiting for stories and characters to appear…

“Burns already knows what her next book is about. ‘It gave itself to me, like almost all of it, and then it kind of said, ‘Back later.’ ‘That was years ago,’ she said. Its characters still pop into her thoughts now and then, she added. ‘They’re about. They’ve been giving me bits and pieces’ ” (1).

The interviewer does not inquire how all this can be.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/books/anna-burns-interview-booker-prize-milkman-no-bones.html