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David Szalay wins Booker Prize for tortured tale of masculinity
The Straits Times
|November 12, 2025
British-Hungarian writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize on Nov 10 for his novel Flesh, a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune.
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Szalay, 51, beat five other shortlisted authors, including Indian novelist Kiran Desai, who won in 2006, and Britain’s Andrew Miller to claim the £50,000 (S$85,700) award at a ceremony in London.
He had previously been shortlisted for the prestigious literary honour in 2016 for his last work, All That Man Is.
This story is from the November 12, 2025 edition of The Straits Times.
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