British writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “Flesh,” the story of one man's life from working-class origins in Hungary to mega-wealth in Britain, in which what isn’t on the page is just as important as what is.

“Using only the sparest of prose, this hypnotically tense and compelling book becomes an astonishingly moving portrait of a man’s life,” the Booker Prize judges said of their winning choice.

Desai missed out on becoming only the fifth double winner in Booker Prize’s 56-year history, having won the coveted literary prize for fiction back in 2006 for ‘The Inheritance of Loss’.

Other finalists included Andrew Miller of Britain.

Who is David Szalay?

David Szalay is a Canadian-Hungarian-British writer born in Montreal to a Hungarian father and a Canadi

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