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Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel “Prophet Song,” the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards ...
Paul Lynch kisses trophy after being named as the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for the novel Prophet Song. Getty Dystopian novel Prophet Song by Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker ...
Irish writer Paul Lynch, author of the dystopian novel "Prophet Song," won the Booker Prize for fiction at a ceremony in London on Sunday. LONDON — Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for ...
With three Pauls on a shortlist of six names, there was a decent chance one would triumph with the 2023 Booker Prize. As it turns out, it is Paul Lynch who can claim the bragging rights and the ...
The novel, “Prophet Song,” is a story mirroring today's headlines, with a country dissolving into political chaos, descending into violence, and one woman watching her family fall apart. Jeffrey Brown ...
Toward the end of Prophet Song, the harrowing novel that won this year's Booker Prize, Paul Lynch unspools a sentence that gathers momentum for more than a page before it seizes on a truth: "the end ...
This is FRESH AIR. Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, says that if you want to start the new year off with a stunning and topical work of literature, you should read "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch, the ...