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Watch the moment Irish author Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize for Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism.
On picking up the award, he said the novel was "not an easy book to write".
The Booker Award is one of the leading literary awards in the English speaking world.