"Booker Prize 2023: Predictions, Favorites, and Shortlisted Novels"

The winner of the Booker Prize for fiction, a prestigious literary award, will be announced in London on Sunday. Among the six finalists, three authors named Paul are in the running: Paul Harding, Paul Lynch, and Paul Murray. Bookmakers have ranked Lynch as the favorite to win, followed by Harding and Murray. The Booker Prize, founded in 1969, is open to English-language novels from any country published in the U.K. and Ireland. It has a history of boosting writers' careers, with previous winners including Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel.