About this Event
Paul Lynch in conversation with Belinda McKeon on ‘Prophet Song’.
The event will commence with Paul reading from his 2023 international bestselling novel “Prophet Song”; he will then engage with Belinda in an in-depth discussion of this book amid his wider career, ending with specialized questions on “Prophet Song” from audience participants.
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.
Belinda McKeon is the author of the novels Solace (2011) and Tender (2015). Her writing has been published in The Paris Review, Winter Pages, A Public Space, The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. She teaches in the English Department at Maynooth University, where she directs the MA in Creative Writing.
The series is curated by literary programmer Alan Hayes.
In the elegant surroundings of the National Library of Ireland.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
National Library of Ireland, 7-8 Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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