Hungarian-British author David Szalay wins Booker Prize for ‘Flesh’

November 11, 2025 9:56 AM

Hungarian-British author David Szalay wins Booker Prize for ‘Flesh’

David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel 'Flesh' on Monday, becoming the first Hungarian-British author to win one of top awards in the English-speaking world. Written in spare prose - characterised by brevity and a lack of unnecessary detail - the book follows a man caught in a series of events beyond his control over decades. It charts his rise from a housing estate in Hungary to the mansions of London's super-rich. "A meditation on class, power, intimacy, migration and masculin...

British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story ‘Orbital’

November 13, 2024 1:45 PM

British writer Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize for space story ‘Orbital’

Britain's Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel 'Orbital', a story about a single day aboard the International Space Station which she wrote during COVID-19 lockdowns. The novel, Harvey's fifth, was the top selling book on the shortlist of six finalists and has sold more copies than the past three Booker Prize winners combined, as readers lapped up her depiction of earth's beauty as seen from space. Judges of the prize, now in its 55th year, praised her writing for the "inten...