The Art of Reading is a monthly book club hosted by Colm Tóibín, the Laureate for Irish Fiction.
Each month, the Laureate meets a different library book club to discuss a book by an Irish writer, highlighting outstanding Irish writing and celebrating the reader and book clubs.
The selected titles celebrate new work by contemporary Irish writers and the latest episode features Colm in conversation with Paul Lynch about his novel, Prophet Song.
Paul Lynch’s novel, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize, is set in the near future in a real Dublin in which a totalitarian regime has come to power.
'If there was ever a crucial book for our current times,' The Guardian has written, 'it’s Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song.’
Paul Lynch is the Booker Prize-winning author of five novels – Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow and Red Sky in Morning.
Prophet Song was published to wide acclaim in 2023, and won the Booker Prize as well as being shortlisted for 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. He lives in Dublin.
The Art of Reading Book Club is an initiative of the Arts Council and the Laureate for Irish Fiction, in partnership with Libraries Ireland. Find out more here.
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