{"id":88163,"date":"2023-11-26T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/?p=88163"},"modified":"2023-11-26T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:36:12","slug":"booker-prize-judges-deny-winner-influenced-by-dublin-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebritytidings.com\/world-news\/booker-prize-judges-deny-winner-influenced-by-dublin-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker Prize judges deny winner influenced by Dublin riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Booker Prize judges deny this year&#8217;s winner was influenced by last week&#8217;s riots in Dublin after Paul Lynch&#8217;s novel Prophet Song which describes police and protesterts clashing in Ireland is handed the award<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Esi Edugyan admitted the recent Dublin mayhem did feature in their discussions<\/li>\n<li>Anti-migrant rampage launched by\u00a0as many as 500 thugs on Thursday<\/li>\n<li>READ MORE:\u00a0Dublin riots LIVE updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Booker Prize judges have denied last week\u2019s Dublin riots strongly influenced their choice of this year\u2019s winner \u2013 a novel telling of police and protesters clashing in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, 46, was named winner after a full day of discussions on Saturday, with judges insisting current events were not a \u2018central factor\u2019 in their decision.<\/p>\n<p>But chairman of judges Esi Edugyan admitted yesterday that while the recent Dublin mayhem was not \u2018particularly front of mind\u2019, it did feature in their discussions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It wasn\u2019t the central factor but I admit that this was something that did get raised,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018One cannot let world events dictate what one chooses as the best novel published that year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/26\/22\/78258363-0-image-a-21_1701036317834.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, 46, was named winner after a full day of discussions on Saturday, with judges insisting current events were not a \u2018central factor\u2019 in their decision<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/26\/22\/78258409-12793563-image-a-22_1701036506029.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Booker Prize judges have denied last week\u2019s Dublin riots strongly influenced their choice of this year\u2019s winner \u2013 a novel telling of police and protesters clashing in Ireland<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/26\/22\/78258417-12793563-image-a-23_1701036561741.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chairman of judges Esi Edugyan admitted yesterday that while the recent Dublin mayhem was not \u2018particularly front of mind\u2019, it did feature in their discussions<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But we did want to choose a title that reflected the things we are all grappling with right now. I think we felt that all of the novels did this in their own way, they really did reflect these issues that we\u2019re all facing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lynch, the fifth Irish author to win the Booker Prize, beat Sarah Bernstein\u2019s Study for Obedience, Paul Murray\u2019s The Bee Sting, Paul Harding\u2019s This Other Eden, Chetna Maroo\u2019s Western Lane and Jonathan Escoffery\u2019s If I Survive You.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Edugyan said Mr Lynch was not a unanimous choice by judges Adjoa Andoh, Mary Jean Chan, James Shapiro and Robert Webb.<\/p>\n<p>The Booker Foundation\u2019s Gaby Wood said they weren\u2019t expecting protests at last night\u2019s ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London as the winner had been a close secret.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We\u2019ve got strong security at the venue but if there are protests we will allow people to speak,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lynch\u2019s novel is set in a dystopian Ireland which has fallen into totalitarianism under the National Alliance party. Teacher and union leader Larry Stack is \u2018disappeared\u2019 by the secret police, leaving his wife to try and protect their family in the face of civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The winner was one of four Irish writers &#8211;\u00a0Sebastian Barry, Elaine Feeney, Paul Lynch and Paul Murray &#8211; who made up the\u00a0the 13-strong longlist for this year\u2019s prestigious literary prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last night\u2019s keynote speaker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe revealed that she read Margaret Atwood\u2019s banned book The Handmaid\u2019s Tale in jail in Iran after it arrived in the post to one of her fellow prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The Booker Prize had also faced criticism back in September\u00a0amid a row over the number of female authors on the shortlist.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland was left reeling this weekend after as many as 500 thugs responded to a horrifying knife attack on schoolchildren in Dublin on Thursday by launching an anti-migrant rampage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fuelled by online misinformation and unsubstantiated rumours that the person behind the attack \u2013 which saw three children and a woman injured \u2013 was a foreign national, the mobs gathered close to some of the city&#8217;s most iconic locations, some waving flags and brandishing signs reading &#8216;Irish Lives Matter&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shocking scenes saw police officers attacked, with around 50 sustaining injuries \u2013 one of whom faces having a toe amputated \u2013 while buses and a tram were torched, with one driver punched and dragged from his cab.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has since been reported by the Irish Times that the attacker had lived in Ireland for some 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12793563\/Booker-Prize-judges-deny-years-winner-influenced-weeks-riots-Dublin-Paul-Lynchs-novel-Prophet-Song-describes-police-protesterts-clashing-Ireland-handed-award.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booker Prize judges deny this year&#8217;s winner was influenced by last week&#8217;s riots in Dublin after Paul Lynch&#8217;s novel Prophet Song which describes police and protesterts clashing in Ireland is handed the award Esi Edugyan admitted the recent Dublin mayhem did feature in their discussions Anti-migrant rampage launched by\u00a0as many as 500 thugs on Thursday READ MORE:\u00a0Dublin riots LIVE updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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