An Upper Sharia Court found Yahaya Sharif, 22, guilty for circulating a song described as insulting Prophet Muhammad on WhatsApp in March. He has 30 days to appeal the judgment.

Toward the end of Prophet Song, the harrowing novel that won this year's Booker Prize, Paul Lynch unspools a sentence that gathers momentum for more than a page before it seizes on a truth: "the ...

COMMENT: Six books, three authors called Paul, one £50,000 prize. In the end, Paul Lynch has taken the spoils for his dystopian tale of a totalitarian Ireland – but it doesn’t feel like a ...

But that time is not this time. GROSS: Maureen Corrigan is a professor of literature at Georgetown University. She reviewed "Prophet Song" by Paul Lynch. It won the 2023 Booker Prize.

Dystopian novel Prophet Song by Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize. Set in Dublin, the story follows a family dealing with a terrifying new world in which democracy falls away.

There are passages in Prophet Song that echo with 2020's brutal police crackdowns on Black Lives Matter marches and former president Donald Trump's increasingly autocratic and apocalyptic language.

Nicola Sturgeon has said she wishes more UK political leaders would read Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel Prophet Song. Ms Sturgeon, a former Scottish first minister, also said she wishes ...

Paul Lynch ‘s Booker Prize-winning novel “ Prophet Song ” portrays life in a fictional dystopian Ireland as democracy crumbles, totalitarianism prevails and families struggle.

This is one of the images discussed by Christiane Gruber. The Prophet Muhammad is pictured in this Islamic manuscript dated 1539–43.