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David Szalay wins the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh .

Szalay is the first author of Hungarian heritage to receive the prize.

Flesh traces the life of a Hungarian immigrant and is set in contemporary Europe.

David Szalay, who has been awarded the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel Flesh (Jonathan Cape), is the first author of Hungarian heritage to win the prize. Born in Canada, Szalay (51) grew up in London. He has lived in Hungary and is now based in Vienna. His mother is Canadian. His father, Hungarian. Over the last 16 years, Szalay has been chronicling the lives of men on the move, taking note of outsiders navigating alien environments, telling the tales of ‘in-between people’ who don’t belong to any one place.

Flesh is Szalay’s sixth work of fict

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