‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’

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I miss my solitude," last year's Booker prize winner Paul Lynch told an audience at Hay festival on Saturday.

In many ways I didn't sign up for this. I'm an introvert who's learned how to be social, a social introvert," he said. I signed up to sit in a room on my own for three or four years and write a book," he said.