Paul Lynch wins Booker Prize 2023 for dystopian novel Prophet Song
ABCIrish 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 Paul Murray Western Lane by Chetna Maroo Prophet Song by Paul Lynch This Other Eden by Paul Harding If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein As the terror and violence ratchets up, Eilish continues caring for her children, going to the shops and helping her father. "We felt unsettled from the start, submerged in – and haunted by – the sustained claustrophobia of Lynch's powerfully constructed world," she said.
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