Irish author Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song
1 year ago

Irish author Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Irish author Paul Lynch has won the Booker Prize 2023 for his novel, Prophet Song. The trophy was designed by the children’s author and illustrator Jan Pieńkowski, and is named after Irish novelist Iris Murdoch, who won the Booker for her novel, The Sea, The Sea in 1978. Readers will find it soul-shattering and true, and will not soon forget its warnings.” Lynch is the fifth Irish author to win the Booker Prize, after Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright. The shortlist, revealed in September, included debut novelists Jonathan Escoffery from the US and the UK’s Chetna Maroo, as well as fellow Irish writer Paul Murray, Canadian author Sarah Bernstein, and US author Paul Harding.

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Paul Lynch, Celeste Ng and Christos Tsiolkas reveal the secrets of their reading and writing lives
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This year’s Booker Prize novel imagines a fascist Ireland. Yes, it can happen there too

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Review Prophet Song By Paul Lynch Atlantic Monthly: 320 pages, $26 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In Paul Lynch’s novel, “ Prophet Song,” the happy life of a Dublin family is blotted out by the ascension of a far-right government. Eilish is frightened, but …

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Irish author Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize for 'Prophet Song'
1 year ago

Irish author Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize for 'Prophet Song'

Hindustan Times  

Paul Lynch had been the bookies’ favorite to win the prestigious literary prize. Paul Lynch received the prize during a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in central London Irish writer Paul Lynch has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for his fifth novel, "Prophet Song." Paul Lynch, 46, spent four years writing the book and was brought to the thought …

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel ‘Prophet Song’
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LA Times  

Paul Lynch, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize, celebrates shortly after the announcement in London on Sunday. Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism and war. Canadian writer Esi Edugyan, who chaired the judging panel, called …

Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize 2023 for dystopian novel Prophet Song
1 year ago

Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize 2023 for dystopian novel Prophet Song

ABC  

Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 50,000-pound Booker Prize, for his novel Prophet Song, a dystopian novel set in Ireland in the near future. "It's very difficult for journalism to enter into the individual life of somebody who may be going through these kinds of tumultuous political upheavals and events," Lynch said. The 2023 shortlist: The Bee Sting by …

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel 'Prophet Song'
1 year ago

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel 'Prophet Song'

The Hindu  

Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism and war. Canadian writer Esi Edugyan, who chaired the judging panel, said the book is “a triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave” in which Mr. Lynch “pulls …

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel ‘Prophet Song’
1 year ago

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize with dystopian novel ‘Prophet Song’

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LONDON — Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism and war. Canadian writer Esi Edugyan, who chaired the judging panel, said the book is “a triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave” in which Lynch …

Book Review of Booker Prize-longlisted Prophet Song by Irish writer Paul Lynch
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Book Review of Booker Prize-longlisted Prophet Song by Irish writer Paul Lynch

The Hindu  

A three-year-old washes up on a beach while his family is trying to flee a war. Moved by events like the conflict in Syria, the plight of refugees, and the West’s deep-rooted indifference, Irish writer Paul Lynch juxtaposes these happenings onto his own country to find out what it will be like to experience such a possibility first-hand, in his …

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