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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 ...

With scientist and mother of four Eilish as the novel’s protagonist, Lynch memorably explores the sensations of dread and fear, of not knowing where your relatives are as you try to make sense of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chuck Prophet took the stage Sunday night in Natalie’s Grandview looking like a skinny young Tom Petty auditioning for the lead in “Destry Rides Again.” Prophet’s stage presence and roots rock wasn’t ...

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 ...

“Prophet Song,” the fifth novel by Irish writer Paul Lynch, has won this year’s Booker Prize. “Well, there goes my hard-won anonymity,” Lynch quipped upon accepting the prize, which comes with an ...