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    Who is Paul Lynch? Author wins Booker Prize 2023 for Prophet Song

    by William Mata Nov 28, 2023 2 minutes
    Source: PA Media

    Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song, a tale of tyranny in a reimagined version of his native Ireland. 

    Novelist Esi Edugyan, the judging chairman, described the book as “soul-shattering and true” and a work that “captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment”.

    Lynch has now taken the £50,000 prize ahead of five others on the shortlist. Those were:

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