Prophet Song: Cork World Book

Booker Prize-winner Paul Lynch in conversation with Alannah Hopkin.

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”. He lives in Dublin.

Alannah Hopkin is a writer and journalist. Her books include travel writing, two novels and a story collection, The Dogs of Inishere (Dalkey Archive Press). In 2020 she was the Frank O’Connor Short Story Fellow at the Munster Literature Centre and University College Cork where she taught on the Creative Writing M.A. In 2021 she published an acclaimed memoir, A Very Strange Man and in 2023 her book about St Patrick and the Irish people was reissued as Patrick: from Patron Saint to Modern Influencer by New Island Books, Dublin. She reviews regularly for the Irish Examiner.