The Booker Prize is one of the world's most prestigious literary awards given annually to a single novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

The winner of the 2025 Booker Prize is Flesh.

Its winner receives 50,000 British pounds, about $65,000, and typically a big boost in book sales.

This year's winner announced at a gala event in London Monday night is Hungarian British writer David Soloy for his novel, Flesh.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown spoke with him earlier today for our arts and culture series Canvas.

All right, well, David Soloy, congratulations.

You were on the short list for this prize once before,

and I saw it the other night at the ceremony that you said,

this time was better.

So you had fun?

This time was better for one you had fun? This time was better for the one very obvious reason,

of course, but also because I did, I was determined to actually enjoy the ceremony, whatever happened, because when I was last involved in this in about 2016, it was really a sort of

horrendously stressful experience experience and I didn't

want to repeat that. So I made a great effort to stay calm this time around, which did involve

persuading myself that I absolutely wasn't going to win. So when it did actually happen,

I got quite a shock. So for those who haven't read it yet, tell us a little bit about the story of Ishtvan that you wanted to give us.

I mean, it covers many decades of the main character's life.

It starts when he's 15 years old in a kind of housing estate in provincial Hungary,

and it then covers the next 40 or 50 years of his life until he's in

sort of late middle age. But it does that in a series of glimpses. It's made of 10 chapters,

each of which provides a brief glimpse of a few weeks or months of his life and the chapters

are then separated by many years.

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