Booker Prize 2023

November 28, 2023

Paul Lynch, an Irish author won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel ‘Prophet Song.’
- The story is set in an imagined Ireland that is descending into tyranny.
- It was described as a “soul-shattering and true” novel that “captures the social and political anxieties of our current moment”.
Lynch is the fifth Irish author to win the prize while the last Irish writer Anna Burns won the award in 2018.
Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of fiction written in English and published in UK and Ireland.