Ireland's Paul Lynch on winning 2023 Booker Prize with novel 'Prophet Song' • FRANCE 24 English

Irish writer Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning fifth novel is a timely and urgent book described as powerful, claustrophobic and horribly real, capturing the social and political anxieties of our time. The book is set in a dystopian Dublin in the grips of totalitarianism. Some of the themes of "Prophet Song" are eerily similar to the riots that broke out in Dublin last week. "Prophet Song" also echoes the violence in Palestine, Ukraine and Syria, and the experience of all those who flee from war-torn countries. The author speaks to FRANCE 24's culture editor Eve Jackson about winning the most prestigious literature prize in the English-speaking world, writing the Irish offspring of "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" - and what he's spending his prize money on.
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[@mariecarroll2079]

This was the book that I wanted to win. It is the best book I’ve read this year. Congratulations Paul Lynch.

[@conallgeneral8136]

I love his answer to what will you do with the prize money? 😂

[@neesha3871]

When people says his booke became true, and he says he was in grief😢... 6:34 6:39

[@sandrarichardson4639]

@Prophet Song congrats™®

[@bobbydennis8333]

2023(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

[@rosierose111]

It certainly was a dark & high anxiety read…even so I couldn’t put it down!….Definitely deserved the Booker!

[@benjaminl429]

Congratulations Trent Reznor.

[@sumanchowdhury6162]

Who sponsored Booker. MAN company left the board

[@guff9567]

It's about all the Irish are good for. Getting drunk and singing

[@sbwlearning1372]

They are exemplars ,with a backbone. Standing up for their identity and rejecting enforced conflict. "Your sons and daughters will be muslims" Anjem Choudhury They are rejecting this call to be bred out

[@Trfagdhhdi]

What amazes me is the books called “Prophet” Song and the tool that wrote it is as left wing as is humanly possible and then all of a sudden a follower of the Prophet goes and stabs 3 children and a carer and all everybody talks about is the far right just forget about the innocent children that were viciously attacked and don’t even consider mentioning that a lot of the looters were immigrants. The timing of all of this and many many other things around Europe should go to show even the most blind that our whole society is controlled.

[@kmaggs7804]

What planet are on? Your brain is broken.