Yahoo

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song wins the 2023 Booker Prize – but the judges picked the wrong Paul

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 ...
The Financial Times

Paul Lynch’s ‘Prophet Song’ wins Booker Prize for fiction

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel Prophet Song, a dystopian ...
NPR

In Booker-winning 'Prophet Song,' the world ends slowly and then all at once

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 ...
NPR

'Prophet Song' is a beautifully-written, slow descent into fascism

Most of the characters in Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel don't want to believe that tyranny is taking shape before their eyes, even as power is cut off and democratic freedoms evaporate. This ...
Yahoo

Paul Lynch, Irish author of 'Prophet Song,' awarded over $60K with 2023 Booker Prize

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 ...
UPI

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker Prize for 'Prophet Song'

Nov. 27 (UPI) --Irish writer Paul Lynch has won this year's Booker Prize for his dystopian novel "Prophet Song," a fictional account of tyranny and war described as "soul-shattering." Lynch, 46, beat ...