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Paul Lynch who is an Irish author won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song..
After being honoured with the award, Lynch said, It is with immense pleasure that I bring the Booker home to Ireland.".
Last year, Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, whose story centres on Sri Lankan civil war..
Lynch the fifth Irish author to win the prize while the last Irish writer Anna Burns won the award in 2018..
Another novelist from Belfast, Aime Walsh in an Observer review stated, Lynchs dystopian Ireland reflects the reality of war-torn countries, where refugees take to the sea to escape persecution on land.".
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