Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the Booker Prize 2025 for his sixth work of fiction, Flesh , becoming the first Hungarian-British writer to receive the prestigious award.

The announcement was made at a ceremony in London on Monday, November 10, where Szalay was presented with the £50,000 prize and trophy by last year’s winner, Samantha Harvey.

Flesh follows the life of István, a boy growing up in Hungary whose experiences, from a fraught teenage affair to life among London’s elite, unravel into a meditation on love, power, and alienation. Published in the UK earlier this year, the book has been praised for its emotional restraint and piercing insight into modern life. The novel asks, as Doyle put it, "what makes a life worth living — and what breaks it."

The novel was c

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