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Nov 26, 2023 · Updated 4:24 PM PDT, November 26, 2023. LONDON (AP) — Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into totalitarianism and war.
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Nov 26, 2023 · A mother faces a terrible choice, in his exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational portrait of a society on the brink. As Paul Lynch becomes the fifth Irish writer to win the Booker Prize, here’s the lowdown on his winning novel, Prophet Song.
Dec 3, 2023 · Paul Lynch Feared His Novel Would End His Career. It Won the Booker. “Prophet Song” has earned comparisons to dystopian classics like “1984.”. But Lynch downplays the book’s political ...
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Nov 27, 2023 · 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...
Nov 27, 2023 · Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her family as Ireland collapses into...
Nov 26, 2023 · The 2023 Booker Prize has been awarded to Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism. It was written by Ireland's Paul Lynch, 46, marking the first time he...
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Dec 16, 2023 · Paul Lynch's novel "Prophet Song" has just won the 2023 Booker Prize a few weeks ago. It's set in modern Dublin, and there is an unnamed pandemic, an unspecified national emergency when one...