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 ...

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 ...

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song has won the Booker Prize for this year. The outstanding novel covers the struggles of an Irish family involving Eilish Stack, a mother of four, who’s trying to protect her ...

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 ...

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 ...

It turns out that the scariest book of 2023 wasn't a horror novel at all, but Irish novelist Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning "Prophet Song." Set in an unnamed Irish city (with named landmarks ...

The judges for the prestigious award were not unanimous in their decision to select this novel, which depicts an Ireland descending into totalitarianism. By Alex Marshall When Paul Lynch, the Irish ...

When is it time to flee your country? When the election doesn’t go your way? Maybe that’s too rash. When civil liberties and free speech are curtailed in the name of public safety and national ...

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 ...

“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 ...