David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel ‘Flesh’. Szalay accepted the award from ‘The Commitments’ writer and former winner Roddy Doyle here in London tonight at a glitzy awards bash held at the Old Billingsgate venue.

Reckoned to be the world’s most significant award for a single work of fiction, the accolade puts its winning autho r into a new orbit, with global coverage of the award and a huge boost to book sales. The winner also takes home a £50,000 ($66K) cash prize.

In his acceptance speech Szalay talked about the importance of risk-taking. “Throughout the process of writing the book there was a sense of risks being taken, and I think it’s very important that we did take those risks,” he said. “Fiction can take risks. It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks,

See Full Page