David Szalay's 'Flesh' Wins the 2025 Booker Prize
TL;DR
David Szalay's novel Flesh, which explores masculinity, the body, and contemporary life through the story of Hungarian immigrant István, won the Booker Prize, marking a significant achievement in his career and highlighting his focus on raw, realistic storytelling about male experiences.
- ‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize-winner The Guardian
- 'Flesh' wins 2025 Booker Prize: 'We had never read anything quite like it' NPR
- Writer David Szalay wins prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with his earthy novel ‘Flesh’ CNN
- British-Hungarian author David Szalay wins 2025 Booker Prize with novel Flesh BBC
- David Szalay wins the Booker prize for “Flesh” The Economist
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