♦ Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize for fiction for his novel ‘Flesh’ at a ceremony in London on 10 November 2025.

♦ Flesh is the story of an ordinary man's life over several decades in which what isn't on the page is just as important as what is.

♦ Szalay to take the coveted literary award, which brings a £50,000 ($66,000) payday and a big boost to the winner’s sales and profile. 

♦ Szalay, who was born in Canada, raised in the U.K. and lives in Vienna, was previously a Booker finalist in 2016 for "All That Man Is," a series of stories about nine wildly different men.

♦ The Booker Prize was founded in 1969 and has established a reputation for transforming writers' careers.

♦ Its winners have included Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Arundhati Roy, Margaret Atwood and Samantha Harvey, who took the 2024 prize for space station story "Orbital."