A Q&A with Booker Prize 2023 shortlisted author Paul Lynch | The Booker Prize

Paul Lynch answers readers' questions about his novel, Prophet Song. Watch to hear all about Lynch's inspirations behind the book, the power of fiction to change lives and why Ireland produces the best novelists.
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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[@ramdularsingh1435]

Congratulations to you Paul !..... You deserve it well....

[@ganesankalimuthu7122]

Congratulations Mr PAUL

[@sureshsureshsamarpitha7958]

Congratulations paul jii

[@lfcizdabest]

I never knew that such glutinous pomposity exists outside of caricature.

[@milespudge7817]

No need of such horrible background score

[@johnmorrison2604]

Scotland the only colony that voted to stay one

[@MilS-rx3df]

He seems very full of himself tbh

[@sureshsureshsamarpitha7958]

Congratulations paul jii