Hungarian-born British writer David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel, Flesh . He was awarded a cash prize of £50,000 and the Prize trophy, Iris, which was presented to him by last year’s winner, Samantha Harvey, at a ceremony in London on Monday. The novel was chosen from 153 works that were submitted for the prize.

The winning work is described on the Booker Prizes website as a “…propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp”.

Novelist Roddy Doyle, chair of the jury, said about Flesh , “‘I don’t think I’ve read a novel that uses the white space on the page so well. It’s as if the author, David Szalay, is inviting the reader to fill the space, to observe – almost to create – the character with him. The writing is spa

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