Szalay wins Booker for Flesh

David Szalay Wins 2025 Booker Prize for Flesh

The judges had never read anything quite like it, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author's novel as the winner of the £50,000 prize. Justine Jordan says the risky strategy of Booker winner Flesh pays off. Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from youth to midlife. The judges had never read anything quite like it, said Doyle, who won the prize in 1993. It is, in many ways, a dark book, but it is a joy to read.

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Son sixième roman, à l’écriture très ciselée, retrace la vie d’un Hongrois, homme ordinaire ayant émigré à Londres, jusqu’à son retour dans son pays natal à un âge avancé.

2025 Booker Prize Goes to David Szalay’s Flesh

The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book 'singular' and 'extraordinary.'

Novel 'Flesh' by David Szalay wins Booker Prize

The British-Hungarian author David Szalay wins with a sober novel that portrays a man of few words. 'The dialogues were superb, and the absence of dialogue was superb,' according to the jury.

Booker Prize for the novel 'Flesh' by David Szalay: 'a dark book, but a pleasure to read'

The Booker Prize for the best English-language book of the year goes to the novel Flesh by David Szalay, the Hungarian-British-Canadian author. It is a 'from rags to riches' story about a Hungarian young man who rises to London among the super-rich. It covers themes including migration, trauma, power, money, and sex.

David Szalay’s Flesh wins the 2025 Booker Prize for fiction

Judges praised the 'singular achievement' of the sparsely written novel that traces a man’s unlikely ascent from Hungary to London's world of the super-rich.

Hungarian-British author David Szalay wins the Booker with Flesh, a dark and singular novel

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Hongaars-Britse schrijver David Szalay (51) wint Booker Prize voor zijn boek Flesh

David Szalay wins the Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, the English-speaking world's premier literary award, goes this year to the British-Hungarian author David Szalay.

The British-Hungarian writer David Szalay wins the Booker Prize 2025

The book traces the life of István, a Hungarian, from his troubled adolescence in his homeland to his later return there, with most of the story taking place in London, where he emigrated.