Booker Prize 2023: Meet the authors
Paul Lynch has been named the winner of this year's for his dystopian novel Prophet Song.
The Irish author told the ceremony, which was broadcast live on Front Row on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4, that it "was not an easy book to write".
Watch his acceptance speech and scroll down to find out more about all six of the books on this year's shortlist, plus an exclusive look around the author's writing spaces...
βMy writing has saved meβ
Watch the moment Paul Lynch is revealed as the winner of the Booker Prize 2023.
Paul Lynch - Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Booker shortlisted author Paul Lynch on Prophet Song
Paul speaks to Kathy Clugston about his dystopian novel Prophet Song, which imagines a future Ireland in the grips of an oppressive regime.
Chetna Maroo - Western Lane
Chetna Maroo
Shortlisted Booker prize author Chetna Maroo on Western Lane
The game of squash and a family overcoming grief are at the heart of Chetna Maroo’s debut novel, Western Lane. She talks to Samira about creating the story's spirited 11-year-old protagonist, Gopi.
Jonathan Escoffery - If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffrey
Booker shortlisted author Jonathan Escoffrey on If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery speaks to Tom Sutcliffe about his novel If I Survive You. It explores issues of race, masculinity and living in the United States as a second-generation Jamaican immigrant, through a series of interlinked short stories.
Where I write: The Booker Prize 2023
'I wrote my novel on handfuls of post-its'
The six authors nominated for the 2023 Booker Prize show Front Row where they write.
Paul Murray - The Bee Sting
Booker shortlisted author Paul Murray on The Bee Sting
Paul Murray on his blackly comic novel The Bee Sting.
Paul Murray talks to Samira about his nominated novel The Bee Sting. A family saga set in contemporary Ireland, it examines our capacity for denial in the face of disaster.
Paul Harding - This Other Eden
Booker Shortlisted Author Paul Harding on This Other Eden
Booker Shortlisted Author Paul Harding on This Other Eden
Paul Harding's third novel, This Other Eden, is nominated for the 2023 Booker Prize. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author uses the historical story of an island in Maine as a point of poetic departure. It was harmoniously inhabited by a mixed-race community in the 19th century, until the unsettling arrival of missionaries.
Sarah Bernstein - Study for Obedience
Shortlisted Booker prize author Sarah Bernstein on Study For Obedience
Shortlisted Booker prize author Sarah Bernstein on Study For Obedience
Canadian novelist Sarah Bernstein is nominated for her second novel, Study for Obedience, which just won the 2023 Giller Prize. The book explores the inner thoughts of its unnamed protagonist, who moves to a new area to stay with her brother and quickly becomes a feared stranger.
Listen to Front Row on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds at 7.15pm every Monday to Thursday. The winner of the was announced in a special Front Row programme broadcast live from the ceremony with Samira Ahmed.
