Prestigious 2025 Booker Prize awarded to David Szalay

London, UK – British-Hungarian writer David Szalay has been awarded the Booker Prize for fiction for his novel Flesh, a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. The 51-year-old writer beat five other finalists to take the high-profile annual literary award, which honours the best English-language novel published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. It comes with a 50,000-pound (US$66,000) prize and a big boost to the winner’s sales and...