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Lynch is the fifth Irish author to win the award.

Irish writer Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize for his novel Prophet Song, with judges describing it as “soul-shattering” and “a triumph”.

The 46-year-old, who lives in Dublin, was presented with his trophy during a ceremony in London

Lynch is the fifth Irish author to win the award.

Irish author Paul Lynch said he thought he was “dooming” his career by writing Prophet Song before winning the 2023 Booker Prize. The 46-year-old, w...

The Loose Women presenter, 43, has made headlines after coming to the defence of YouTuber Nella Rose , who was hit by online trolling after a tense row on Im A Celebrity.

I should have seen this coming. For the last four years, the Booker Prize has alternated between picking the right book and the very wrong. Last year, it went to Shehan Karunatilaka for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a comic thriller set in Sri Lanka and the afterlife. That novel was a deserving winner, quick-witted and spry in style. According to the pendulum, then, 2023 would go awry.

COMMENT: 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 five-member judges panel spent six hours on Saturday discussing the short list and went through several rounds of voting before settling on Mr. Lynch’s novel

Irish writer Paul Lynch has won the Booker Prize for fiction with his dystopian novel “Prophet Song.”