We have entered into a tunnel and there is no going back, she says, we just need to keep going and going until we reach the light on the other side.

Light - there is so little of it in Prophet Song´. Darkness looms over these pages; it is an omnipresent theme from the very first paragraph on. This is an absolutely terrifying novel. I am going to be thinking about Prophet Song´ for a long time.

Auteur

Lynch, Paul

Paul Lynch is the award-winning author of five novels - Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky in Morning. His most recent novel, Prophet Song, won the 2023 Booker Prize and was shortlisted for the Strega European Award and the An Post Irish Novel of the Year. He has previously won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and France´s Prix Libr´à Nous for Best Foreign Novel, among other prizes. He has been shortlisted for many international awards, including the UK´s Walter Scott Prize, and France´s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, Prix Littérature-Monde, and the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. In 2024, he was appointed Distinguished Writing Fellow at Maynooth University and was elected to Aosdána, which honours artists who have made outstanding contributions to the creative arts in Ireland. He lives in Dublin.