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Irish author Paul Lynch wins 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song

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Irish author Paul Lynch has won the Booker Prize 2023 for his novel, Prophet Song.

In a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London on Sunday night, Lynch was honoured for his fifth novel. None of the six authors nominated for the award had been shortlisted before; in a first for the prize, three of them were called Paul.

Set in a dystopian Ireland, follows protagonist Eilish Stack as she tries to make sense of the nightmare of a collapsing society, hampered

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