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Alexandra Jones

Irish novelist Paul Lynch wins this year's Booker Prize for dystopian story

Irish author Paul Lynch won this year’s Booker Prize for his dystopian novel Prophet Song.

He accepted the award, at a glittering ceremony at Old Billingsgate, for his fifth novel which follows protagonist Eilish Stack as she struggles to protect her family in an Ireland slowly tipping into totalitarianism.

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