PAUL LYNCH WINS THE 2023 BOOKER

In September, a couple of months before emerged as the winner of this year’s Booker Prize, Paul Lynch, 46, tweeted a photograph featuring five of the six shortlisted authors: Sarah Bernstein (Study for Obedience), fellow Irish writer Paul Murray (The Bee Sting), Chetna Maroo (Western Lane), himself (for his fifth novel, Prophet Song), and Paul Harding (This Other Eden).

In the tweet, Lynch wrote, “This is a wondrous moment for me and I’m so pleased to be sharing it with these superb writers including my friend Paul Murray. Seamus Heaney wrote in the North: ‘Expect aurora borealis in the long foray…’ Last night, there was light in the sky.”