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The coup de grâce for woke ⊕
The Booker Prize would not have gone to David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ a few years ago
3 months ago
Not OK? Booker winner Flesh ignites debate about state of masculinity ○
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Toxic male behaviour of David Szalay’s protagonist reflects real-world concerns about a ‘crisis of masculinity’
In the immediate aftermath of David Szalay’s book Flesh winning the Booker prize, one fe…
‘It’s notoriously hard to write about sex’: David Szalay on Flesh, his astounding Booker prize-winner ⊖
The novel’s protagonist is violent, libidinous and so inarticulate he says ‘OK’ some 500 times. So how did the author turn his story into a tragic masterpiece?
When we meet the morning after the annou…
Hungarian-British author David Szalay wins the Booker Prize with novel Flesh ⊕
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The book, a rags-to-riches tale exploring class and power, traces the life of one man István who moves from Hungary to London.
Booker Prize won by 'extraordinary' Flesh by David Szalay ⊕⊕
Booker judges describe British-Hungarian author David Szalay's Flesh as "a very special book".
The risky strategy of Booker winner Flesh pays off ⊖
The protagonist’s inner life is hidden from the reader in this highly original novel
David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh
Reflecting on the Booker judging process, chair Roddy Doyle str…
David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for ‘dark’ Flesh ⊕⊕
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The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award
Justine Jordan: The risky strategy …
‘I had a year to write it from scratch’: the 2025 Booker finalists on the stories behind their novels ⊖
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A newspaper report about a missing girl, the memory of a midwinter emergency … Susan Choi, Andrew Miller, David Szalay and others on what inspired their shortlisted books
The Loneliness of Sonia and …
5 months ago
‘Brilliantly human’: Kiran Desai and David Szalay make Booker prize shortlist ○
No debut novels are among the six finalists, with established authors including Ben Markovits and previously shortlisted Andrew Miller in the running
Chris Power: ‘As a Booker prize judge I helped whi…