Who is David Szalay?published at 21:56 GMT
Ian Youngs
Culture reporter
The author was born in Canada to a Canadian mother and Hungarian father. They moved to Beirut, then London, when he was small, and he grew up in the English capital. He moved to Hungary and now lives in Vienna, Austria, with his wife.
He worked as a financial advertising sales executive in the City of London, inspiring his first novel, titled London and the South-East, a satire of the life of an unfulfilled ad salesman. It won the Betty Trask and Geoffrey Faber Memorial prizes.
In 2013, he was named on Granta’s list of the Best of Young British Novelists.
He received his first Booker nomination for All That Man Is, another exploration of modern masculinity, in 2016. It missed out on the Booker Prize but did win the Gordon Burn Prize and Plimpton Prize for Fiction.
Flesh is his sixth novel. He has also written BBC radio dramas and short stories, winning the 2019 Edge Hill Prize for his short story collection Turbulence.
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