David Szalay has won the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel Flesh. Photo: AP PHOTO

Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won this year's Booker Prize for fiction with his novel Flesh, the story of an ordinary man's life over several decades.

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Szalay, who was previously shortlisted in 2016 for All That Man Is, received STG50,000 ($A100,822) and a trophy, presented to him by last year's winner Samantha Harvey.

Written in spare prose, Flesh follows a man caught in a series of events beyond his control as it charts his rise from a housing estate in Hungary to the mansions of L

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