David Szalay (Julia Papp)
The Booker Prize announced it’s shortlist of titles for the 2025 prize on Sept. 23. Montreal-born David Szalay is one of six shortlistees, for his novel Flesh, published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart.
The Booker jury described Flesh as “a disquisition on the art of being alive, and all the affliction that comes along with it, but it is also an absolute page-turner.”
Quill & Quire’s starred review of Flesh noted that “a bare-bones plot description does not do justice to Szalay’s literary achievement in the novel, which, as ever, is predicated upon his stylistic legerdemain.”
Szalay was previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016 for his linked collection of short stories All That Man Is.
The shortlisted titles and authors are :
- Flashlight by Susan Choi (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan Publishers)
- The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
- Audition by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House)
- The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits (Summit Books/Simon & Schuster)
- The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller (Sceptre/Hachette Book Group)
- Flesh by David Szalay (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House)
The 2025 Booker jury is composed of chair Roddy Doyle, novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, actor and publisher Sarah Jessica Parker, literary critic Chris Power, and author Kiley Reid.
The titles were chosen from a longlist announced in July. The winner will be named at the annual ceremony in London on Nov. 10.
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