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Irish Author Paul Lynch Wins 2023 Booker Prize

Irish author Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday for his novel "Prophet Song," a dystopian work about an Ireland that descends into tyranny.

International Business Times · Nov 26, 2023

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song wins the 2023 Booker Prize – but the judges picked the wrong Paul

Six books, three authors called Paul, one £50,000 prize. In the end, Paul Lynch has taken the spoils for his dystopian tale of a totalitarian Ireland – but it doesn’t feel like a winner that will stand the test of time, writes our chief book critic Martin Chilton

The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2023

Paul Lynch: From film critic to full-time writer

His fifth novel, Prophet Song, about a tyrannical government won the 2023 Booker Prize.

The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2023

Booker prize 2023: why these shortlisted novels represent a 'golden age' of Irish writing

This year’s Booker prize shortlist is an exciting line up, melding established, prize-winning authors and debut writers. The 2023 shortlist contains two Irish authors – Paul Murray and Paul Lynch – and on the long list of 13 novels, Elaine Feeney’s How to Build a Boat and Sebastian Barry’s Old…

The Conversation · Nov 23, 2023

Paul Murray and Fern Brady shortlisted for inaugural Nero awards

The prizes, which have picked up from the abruptly cancelled Costa awards, cover fiction, debut fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction

The Guardian - UK · Nov 21, 2023

Booker prize 2023: will the judges talk themselves out of the right choice?

Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting, in a year full of family sagas, is surely the standout volume, but the panel may just opt for Sarah Bernstein’s ‘spectrally vague brainteaser’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 19, 2023

The White Review literary magazine ceases publishing

A statement cited increased costs and removal of UK state funding as the magazine, which featured writers including Paul Murray, Caleb Azumah Nelson and Sally Rooney, is to consider its future

The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2023

Finishing every Booker Prize novel is ‘impossible’ says judge Robert Webb

‘You finish as many as you can and the other ones you put to one side after a respectable but undisclosed fraction has been read’

Evening Standard · Sep 22, 2023

Novels from Canada, Ireland, US, UK finalists for Booker Prize for fiction

Shortlist announced for annual Booker literature prize includes two first-time novels among the six finalists.

Al Jazeera · Sep 22, 2023

Two debut books make the prestigious Booker Prize shortlist

Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You and Chetna Maroo's Western Lane are among the contenders for this year's prize, which honors the best English-language fiction published in the U.K. and Ireland.

WEKU · Sep 21, 2023