David Szalay is a British and Hungarian writer whose novels, including All That Man Is and Turbulence, are built from intertwined short stories. All That Man Is was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and won the Gordon Burn Prize that year. Szalay's sixth novel, Flesh, won the 2025 Booker Prize and follows István, a reserved Hungarian man whose life takes him from the battlefields of Iraq to unsettled places.
