Who won the Booker Prize 2025, and what is notable about the win?
- Kiran Desai — The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny; second Booker win for Desai
- Katie Kitamura — Audition; first American woman to win the Booker
- David Szalay — Flesh; first Hungarian-British author to win
- Andrew Miller — The Land in Winter; first win for a British author since 2019
Answer: David Szalay — Flesh; first Hungarian-British author to win the Booker Prize
David Szalay won the Booker Prize 2025 for his novel Flesh, announced on 10 November 2025 at Old Billingsgate, London. He became the first Hungarian-British author in the prize's history to win. Flesh is his sixth work of fiction and follows a man named István across decades — from a Hungarian housing estate to London's elite. Szalay had previously been shortlisted in 2016 for All That Man Is.