Ireland's Paul Lynch on winning 2023 Booker Prize with novel 'Prophet Song'

Paul Lynch is an internationally acclaimed Irish novelist who has published five novels, winning several awards in the process. Before "Prophet Song", Lynch wrote "Beyond the Sea", "Grace", "The Black Snow" and "Red Sky in Morning".

His third novel "Grace" won the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the 2020 Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award. His second novel, "The Black Snow", won France's bookseller prize, Prix Libr'à Nous, for Best Foreign Novel.   

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