David Szalay's FLESH wins the 2025 Booker Prize!

FLESH by David Szalay (Scribner US, Jonathan Cape UK) has won the 2025 Booker Prize!

The prize was presented at the 2025 Booker ceremony in London on November 10th, with Szalay receiving the statue from 2024 Booker laureate Samantha Harvey. In a news conference before the announcement, 2025 judges’ panel chair Roddy Doyle remarked of FLESH, “It’s just not like any other book. [The reader wants to] climb into the novel and be involved. I found it riveting.” The judges also hailed the novel as “extraordinary” and “singular.”

Discover David Szalay’s FLESH, published in the US by Scribner, here!