2025 Booker Prize Goes to David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’

The rags-to-riches tale had already made fans of Zadie Smith and Dua Lipa. Roddy Doyle, who chaired the judging panel, called the book “singular” and “extraordinary.”David Szalay, at right, accepts the Booker Prize trophy for his novel “Flesh” from last year’s winner, Samantha Harvey.