British-Hungarian author David Szalay’s Flesh wins 2025 Booker Prize
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New Delhi: Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel Flesh, which tells the story of a detached man.
The book, which the judge called ‘extraordinary’ and ‘a very special book’, delves into the life of the protagonist being swept by changing phases of life, according to BBC.
It is reported that Szalay got £50,000 in prize presented to him by last year’s winner, Samantha Harvey.
Flesh is the sixth work of fiction by David Szalay, who was previously shortlisted for the Booker in 2016.
Books shortlisted for this year’s prize include The Land in Winter, The Rest of Our Lives, Audition, Flashlight, alongside Indian author Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.
The judging panel, chaired by 1993 Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle, Booker Prize-longlisted novelists Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Kiley Reid, actor Sarah Jessica Parker, and writer and literary critic Chris Power, considered 153 books written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.