Having spent 18 months promoting his Booker Prize-winning novel Prophet Song, you might expect that Paul Lynch has almost run out of things to say. He reckons he has done over 350 interviews since winning the world’s foremost literary prize in 2023. And yet he still has so much to say. He is keen to discuss the role of the writer as an artist, how making writing a career is difficult and yet impossible to ignore if it is your destiny. For Lynch, writing was always more than a job, more like a compulsion. He worked as a journalist and…

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