Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song was the winner of the 2023 Booker Prize in November 2023. He was awarded a cash prize of £50,000 and the trophy. The novel is an exhilarating, propulsive and confrontational ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt’s much-quoted description of the “banality of evil” could be applied to the disquieting story told in Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. The Booker Prize-winning novel is a ...

Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, which won the Booker Prize 2023, has been routinely called Orwellian or Atwoodesque and is even compared to the film Apocalypse Now. This brings out the insistence of ...

With scientist and mother of four Eilish as the novel’s protagonist, Lynch memorably explores the sensations of dread and fear, of not knowing where your relatives are as you try to make sense of the ...

While judges Prophet Song as 'propulsive and unsparing,' critics have been less warm, branding it the 'weakest book on the shortlist' that won't 'stand the test of time'. Set in a dystopian fictional ...

The thing about Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s unexpected winner of the Booker, is that it’s almost hilariously unprophetic. It starts with the Irish secret police knocking at the door, looking for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Lynch (Dave Benett) The thing about Prophet Song, Paul Lynch’s unexpected winner of the Booker, is that it’s almost ...

The philosopher Hannah Arendt’s much-quoted description of the “banality of evil” could be applied to the disquieting story told in Prophet Song by Paul Lynch. The Booker prize-winning novel is a ...

On Sunday, November 26, Irish author Paul Lynch's fifth novel, Prophet Song, won the 2023 Booker Prize at an Old Billingsgate, London event. He received his trophy with a $63,000 cash prize from the ...