LONDON(UK): Indian born author Kiran Desai was among five other authors who were pipped by Hungarian-British writer David Szalay, who took home this year’s Booker Prize for fiction for his novel ‘Flesh’.

Szalay’s story of an ordinary man’s life over several decades beat Desai’s ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ for the Prize that was held at a ceremony in London on Monday night.

Fifty-one-year-old Szalay, was previously shortlisted in 2016 for ‘All That Man Is’, received £50,000 and a trophy, presented to him by last year’s winner Samantha Harvey.

“A meditation on class, power, intimacy, migration and masculinity, Flesh is a compelling portrait of one man, and the formative experiences that can reverberate across a lifetime,” organisers of the award ceremony in London said on Monday (

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