Hungarian-British author David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel ‘Flesh’, narrowly beating Indian author Kiran Desai’s ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’. Szalay received £50,000 and a trophy for his dark, compelling portrait of an emotionally detached man

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

Szalay, 51, was presented with 50,000 pounds and a trophy on Monday night 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

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