Booker Prize 2025 | 12 Nov 2025

Source: IE  

David Szalay , a Hungarian-British author, has won the prestigious 2025 Booker Prize for his sixth novel, Flesh. 

• His novel “Flesh” follows a man’s rise from poverty in Hungary to wealth in London, exploring fate and ambition. 

Booker Prize 

• The Booker Prize is the world’s leading literary award for a single work of fiction and awarded by Booker Prize Foundation. 
• The prize was first awarded in 1969 to promote reading and literary excellence. 
• It initially recognised writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland, but now spans the globe, welcoming authors of any nationality. 
• It aims to promote excellence in fiction by rewarding an original work of fiction, written in English. 
• Bernice Rubens was the first woman to win this prize in 1970 for her novel The Elected Member. 
• Notable Past Winners Include: 
  • Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children (1981) 
  • Arundhati Roy – The God of Small Things (1997) 
  • Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day (1989) (Also 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature) 
  • Arvind Adiga - The White Tiger 
  • Samantha Harvey – Orbital (2024) 
• Difference Between Booker Prize & International Booker Prize: 
  • The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969 and is for the best single work of fiction originally written in English. 
  • The International Booker Prize was established later in 2005 and is for the best single work of fiction translated into English from any other language.  
    • It recognizes the achievement of both the author and the translator.