Prophet Song | Paul Lynch in conversation with Claire Armitstead

The 2023 Booker Prize-winning novel Prophet Song by Paul Lynch is an exhilarating, propulsive, and confrontational portrait of a society on the brink. It follows one woman’s attempts to save her family in a dystopic Ireland sliding into authoritarian rule, offering an unflinching account of the erosion of free will and liberty. In conversation with journalist Claire Armitstead, Lynch examines the nuances of his writing and explores the story of a mother's fight to keep her family together.
Paul Lynch is the prize-winning author of five novels: Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow, and Red Sky in Morning. He was awarded The Booker Prize 2023 for his esteemed novel Prophet Song. He has won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and the French booksellers’ prize Prix Libr’à Nous for best foreign novel. He has also been shortlisted for UK’s Walter Scott Prize, the US’s William Saroyan International Prize, and France’s Prix Jean Monnet for European Literature and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, among other prizes. Libération has called Lynch “one of today’s greatest Irish writers”.
Claire Armitstead is an Associate Editor (Culture) at the Guardian. She writes across the Guardian and Observer, and is a member of the leader-writing team, with responsibility for articulating the Guardian's view on cultural issues. Her previous roles have included arts editor, literary editor and head of books. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former deputy chair of English Pen.
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