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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’

Paul Lynch
Paul Lynch: ‘Civilisation is such a thin veneer, and it’s so fragile.’ Photograph: Tristan Hutchinson/The Observer

“I miss my solitude,” last year’s Booker prize winner Paul Lynch told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday.

“In many ways I didn’t sign up for this. I’m an introvert who’s learned how to be social, a social introvert,” he said. “I signed up to sit in a room on my own for three or four years and write a book,” he said.

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