David Szalay

DAVID SZALAY was born in Montreal in 1974, and moved to the U.K. the following year. His most recent novel, Flesh, won the 2025 Booker Prize. He won the Betty Trask Prize for his first novel, London and the South-East (2008), along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. He was recently named one of the Telegraph's "Top 20 British Writers under 40," a Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and he won the 2016 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, awarded by the Paris Review for an outstanding contribution to the magazine. These days, David lives in Vienna.