A Q&A with Booker Prize 2023 shortlisted author Paul Murray | The Booker Prize

Paul Murray answers readers' questions about his novel, The Bee Sting. Watch to hear all about Murray's inspirations behind the book, the act of writing it and which literary Paul is his all-time favourite.
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.
Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.
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[@ayanokojikiyotaka2413]

A brilliant novelist. Just brilliant.

[@MarianneYoshida-zd5eg]

Read Skippy Died. Read part of The Bee Sting . Realized this guy is a modern Anthony Trollope. The way we are now. Murray can really spin it.

[@terileekline]

What a book! Loved it!

[@thecinematicmind]

🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@agarryking]

I would add - Paul Smith, The Country Woman.