Szalay wins 2025 Booker Prize

Booker Prize: What Was Missing from This Story Won Over the Jury

The British-Hungarian author David Szalay wins the Booker Prize for the novel What Cannot Be Said. He tells, with brilliant conciseness, the traumas of his laconic hero.

Booker 2025: David Salai Wins for the Book 'Flesh'

The 'Flesh', which prevailed over the big favorites, raises questions about what drives a life, what makes it worthwhile, and what could break it.

Male desire without taboos: How brilliant is the novel by the new Booker Prize-winning David Szalay [premium]

The novel Flesh ('What Cannot Be Said') by Hungarian-British author David Szalay, who lives in Vienna, stands out from current literary production and is a breakthrough in storytelling.

David Szalay ('Flesh'): British-Hungarian author wins the Booker Prize 2025

He was left empty-handed in 2016; now David Szalay has won the prestigious Booker Prize. The jury, led by actress Sarah Jessica Parker, praised his novel Flesh as hypnotic.

David Szalay: British-Hungarian author wins Booker Prize 2025

2016 left him empty-handed, now David Szalay has won the prestigious Booker Prize. The jury, led by actress Sarah Jessica Parker, praised his novel Flesh as hypnotic.

David Salai wins the Booker Prize for the novel 'Flesh'

With spare prose, the novel explores themes such as masculinity, class identity, immigration, trauma, sexuality, and power.

British-Hungarian author: David Szalay wins Booker Prize 2025

Short and precise, gripping and hypnotic - that's how the Booker Prize describes the winning novel Flesh by David Szalay. The author had been nominated before.

Top UK literary prize: Booker Prize 2025 goes to Hungarian-British author Szalay

Concise and precise, gripping and hypnotic—this is how the Booker Prize describes the winner's novel Flesh. The author had not been nominated for the first time.

Booker Prize goes to Viennese pick: David Szalay wins with a novel about a rise into the world of the super-rich

The Briton living in Vienna won with the novel 'Flesh', a loner tale set between Hungary and Britain. The prestigious prize is worth 50,000 pounds

Vienna-based British author David Szalay wins Booker Prize

The Brit living in Vienna prevailed with the novel Flesh, a standalone story between Hungary and Great Britain. The prestigious prize is worth 50,000 pounds.

Vienna-based David Szalay wins the prestigious Booker Prize

The Vienna-based Brit won with the novel "Flesh." The prize is worth 50,000 pounds.

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

In a city, London, of private clubs, having the Booker is to enter the most exclusive club of English-language writers in the world. Beyond that, only the Nobel remains. Read

Literature Prize: David Szalay wins Booker Prize for 'What Cannot Be Said'

The Hungarian-British author prevailed over five other writers at the prestigious literary prize. His novel is a portrait of a man from the working class who achieves social upward mobility.

Booker Prize 2025 : le Britannico-Hongrois David Szalay remporte, avec « Flesh », le prestigieux prix littéraire

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.

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.

Outsider beats literary favourites to win Booker Prize

The winner of the coveted Booker Prize has been announced at an event in London.

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

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.'