Litquake – An Evening with Booker Prize Winner Paul Lynch
7:00-8:30 pm PT
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley | 1 Lawson Rd | Kensington, CA
Event admission is free. A $10–15 donation is suggested.
This event will also be live-streamed and videorecorded for those unable to attend in person. Mrs. Dalloway’s Books in Berkeley will have extra signed copies of Prophet Song available for purchase after the event.
If the accolades for Irish writer Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song are any indication, the novel is no less than required reading for our turbulent times. Awarded the 2023 Booker Prize, Lynch’s fifth novel recounts in exacting, all-too-plausible detail the inexorable descent of Ireland’s liberal democracy into authoritarian rule. Booker Prize chair Esi Edugyan called the novel “soul-shattering and true,” and noted that readers “will not soon forget its warnings.” Join us for one of Lynch’s few North American events in honor of the paperback release of Prophet Song; he will be in conversation with Irish writer Ethel Rohan, author most recently of the novel Sing, I.
Litquake, San Francisco’s Literary Festival, is celebrating 25 years! Their 2024 Festival runs from 10/10 – 10/26 with 140+ events taking place all over the Bay Area and featuring 500+ authors and performers. The full schedule is available at litquake.org(opens in a new tab).
Sponsored by the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme, Culture Ireland, and Center for the Art of Translation
Paul Lynch is the award-winning author of five novels — Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea, Grace, The Black Snow, and Red Sky in Morning. His most recent novel, Prophet Song, won the 2023 Booker Prize and was shortlisted for the Strega European Award and the A Post Irish Novel of the Year.