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The 2023 Booker Prize

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The 2023 Booker Prize

The 2023 Booker Prize has been awarded to Paul Lynch for his fifth novel, PROPHET SONG, an exhilarating and propulsive portrait of a nation sliding into tyranny --- and one woman's attempts to hold her family together. Heralded in one review as "a crucial book for our current times," it captures some of the biggest social and political anxieties of our age, from the rise of political extremism to the global plight of refugees. Lynch is the fifth Irish writer to win the Booker Prize, after Iris Murdoch, John Banville, Roddy Doyle and Anne Enright. Click here to read more about Lynch and PROPHET SONG.

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2023 Winner
 

  • PROPHET SONG by Paul Lynch
     


2023 Shortlist
 

  • THE BEE STING by Paul Murray
  • WESTERN LANE by Chetna Maroo
  • PROPHET SONG by Paul Lynch
  • THIS OTHER EDEN by Paul Harding
  • IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan Escoffery
  • STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE by Sarah Bernstein
     


2023 Longlist
 

  • THE HOUSE OF DOORS by Tan Twan Eng
  • THE BEE STING by Paul Murray
  • WESTERN LANE by Chetna Maroo
  • IN ASCENSION by Martin MacInnes
  • PROPHET SONG by Paul Lynch
  • ALL THE LITTLE BIRD-HEARTS by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
  • PEARL by Siân Hughes
  • THIS OTHER EDEN by Paul Harding
  • HOW TO BUILD A BOAT by Elaine Feeney
  • IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan Escoffery
  • STUDY FOR OBEDIENCE by Sarah Bernstein
  • OLD GOD'S TIME by Sebastian Barry
  • A SPELL OF GOOD THINGS by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀