Booker Prize
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Hungarian-British author David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for his sixth novel, "Flesh." The novel is described as a spare, hypnotically tense, and compelling portrait of a man's life.
About Booker Prize
- It is a prestigious literary award given annually for the best single work of sustained fiction written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
- It was established in 1968 and first awarded in 1969.
- Originally, it was limited to novels by authors from the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe.
- Since 2014, eligibility was extended to any novel written in English regardless of the author's nationality.
- The prize aims to promote the finest fiction of the year.
- The winning author receives £50,000.
- The prize is judged by a five-person panel appointed annually, consisting of authors, publishers, journalists, and sometimes artists or public figures.
- Judges read all submitted books, usually about 150, and select a longlist (about 12-13 titles), a shortlist (six titles), and then the winner.
Indian authors who have won the Booker Prize
- Salman Rushdie - Won in 1981 for "Midnight's Children."
- V.S. Naipaul - Won in 1971 for "In a Free State."
- Arundhati Roy - Won in 1997 for "The God of Small Things."
- Kiran Desai - Won in 2006 for "The Inheritance of Loss."
- Aravind Adiga - Won in 2008 for "The White Tiger,"
- Geetanjali Shree - Won the International Booker Prize in 2022 for "Tomb of Sand" (originally in Hindi as "Ret Samadhi"). She is the first Indian author to win this international category for a Hindi-language novel.
- Banu Mushtaq - Won the International Booker Prize in 2025 for "Heart Lamp,"
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