Paul Lynch Booker Prize Winner Collection

Born in Limerick in 1977, Paul Lynch grew up in Co Donegal and currently resides in Dublin.

He is an internationally acclaimed Irish novelist with five books and multiple prizes. Before Prophet Song, Lynch wrote Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky in Morning. Grace, his third novel, earned the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and 2020 Ireland Francophonie Ambassadors' Literary Award. The Black Snow, his second novel, earned France's Prix Libr'à Nous for Best Foreign Novel.

Booker Prize winner and An Post Irish Novel of the Year nominated PROPHET SONG was published in August 2023 to rave reviews. Booker Prize judges hailed the novel "soul-shattering... truly a masterful work". John Boyne of The Sunday Independent deemed Prophet Song "entirely original". The Observer deemed it "a crucial book for our current times... brilliant, haunting". The TLS termed it "thunderously powerful". Guardian: "an urgent, important read". Literary Review deemed it "a masterly novel". Washington Post reporter Ron Charles hailed the book "a prophetic masterpiece".