"Milkman" by writer Anna Burns scoops the 2018 Man Booker Prize, with the Northern Irish writer winning the literary award for her third full-length novel.

American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award, for his first novel, "Lincoln in the Bardo," - a fictional account of US President Abraham Lincoln burying his young son.

South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize, sharing the £50,000 ($72,000, 63,500 euros) award with her translator -- who had only taught herself Korean three years before.

Jamaican author Marlon James wins the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.