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Hungarian British author David Szalay was named the winner of the Booker Prize 2025 for his novel ‘Flesh’, beating Kiran Desai’s ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ at a ceremony in London on Monday night.

Szalay, 51, was presented with 50,000 pounds and a trophy by last year’s Booker winner Samantha Harvey for his novel about an emotionally detached man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp.

“Using only the sparest of prose, this hypnotically tense and compelling book becomes an astonishingly moving portrait of a man’s life,” the Booker Prize judges said of their winning choice.

Desai missed out on becoming only the fifth double winner in B

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