Overview
- David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for Flesh at Monday night’s ceremony in London, calling the honor “an enormous” and “slightly surreal” experience.
- Szalay received £50,000 and a trophy presented by last year’s winner, Samantha Harvey, at the Old Billingsgate event.
- On Tuesday, Queen Camilla welcomed Szalay, shortlisted authors and the judging panel to Clarence House, praising their work and urging efforts to get more people reading.
- The five-person panel, chaired by Roddy Doyle and including Sarah Jessica Parker, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Chris Power and Kiley Reid, reviewed about 150 novels over months of reading.
- The Clarence House event highlighted the recently announced Children’s Booker Prize, which organizers said will make its inaugural awards in February 2027.