Paul Lynch

Biography

Paul Lynch is the Booker Prize–winning author of five novels: Red Sky in Morning, The Black Snow, Grace, Beyond the Sea and Prophet Song. His most recent novel, Prophet Song, was an international bestseller and won the 2023 Booker Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among other honours. He has received numerous literary awards, including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and France’s Prix Libr’à Nous and Prix des Libraires for Best Foreign Novel, and has been shortlisted for major international prizes including the Dublin Literary Award, the Strega European Prize, the Kirkus Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize. In 2024, he was elected to Aosdána, the Irish academy of artists. In 2025, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Limerick for his “remarkable contributions to literature” and was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. His fiction has been translated into more than 40 languages.